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On this day in 1978, United Steelworkers union workers in Sudbury, Ontario voted to go on strike to fight proposed layoffs and pay cuts. The strike was the longest in Canadian history until the record was broken by Sudbury workers in 2009.

The layoffs and cuts to pay and benefits were at the multi-national company Inco, which cited low nickel prices as a justification.

According to filmmaker Martin Duckworth, workers voted to strike against the advice of the United Steelworkers hierarchy, and the strike enjoyed national support because Inco was a known polluter and one of the biggest multi-nationals in Canada.

Around 11,600 workers were involved in the strike, which affected the wages sustaining 43,000 people, or about 26% of the population of metropolitan Sudbury. By the end of the strike, nine months later, the company had been deprived of over twenty-two million hours of labor.

The workers won small wage increase and a pension package, however thousands of workers lost their homes and cars because of the length of the strike. According to journalist Amy Miller, since 1979, INCO has fired 20,000 employees from their staff and now have more people receiving payments from the pension roll than pay roll.

The role of women in the community during the strike was profiled in the 1980 documentary film A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes).

All Out to Support Striking Vale Inco Workers!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

day drunk on a school night

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

feeling pretty defeated rn today has bested me

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

think ill self-date tomorrow, i've got a lot of cleaning to do and i haven't day drank in forever, so i'll like get drunk in the sun, cook, clean, shave my legs paint my nails

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The Department of Defence has faced a Brisbane Magistrate over a charge of breaching federal workplace health and safety laws after two soldiers were mauled by a 2.5 metre crocodile in 2021.

dean-smile

Defence has been handed a 7000-page evidence brief after the two men narrowly survived being death-rolled in Far North Queensland.

dean-frown

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Should probably start workshopping ways to explain my wariness around marital finances to any future life partner

"No honey I'm not planning to leave you, but both my parents were left destitute after costly divorce proceedings so if you could just sign that prenup 🙂🙂🙂"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The best thing about slowly learning Russian is that I can send sweet nothings to my partner like this:

Служу Советскому Союзу 07

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

gonna emulate a Pikmin game because I never got to play 'em

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Is there anything to be done about excessively loud motor vehicles, or must I wait for the car rapture?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Just want to say that Arabic is such a fucking cool language I love it. Definitely making me regret having posted cring until now by only studying European Indo-European languages. Also to my neighbours, I hope you enjoy hearing me practise my emphatic consonants and ع while you are trying to sleep lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

LaRouche was very bad but we should actually build the Bering Strait train

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chat Pile is like if Disco Elysium was set in Oklahoma City

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

live-tucker-reaction

I would have been such a good journalist on 9/11

We would have gone back to air with me standing in front of the burning towers. I would have been all calm and professional, both stern and with my tie undone so you could tell we scrambled to arrive on scene.

"Ladies and gentlemen, (because there's only two genders) America is under attack". Then a shadow overhead and we nab some great footage of the second plane hitting. I would stare in shock for a moment, then a determined smirk would draw across my face. "I've got to save these people!" I would say directly to my cameraman Richard, who thinks I look great today and wishes I would act a bit sluttier around the office.

I would have gone into the towers and saved hundreds, maybe thousands of people all on camera. I would have been a hero but also I would have a lived, unlike those other idiots. I often wonder if Richard is happy with his life. He smiles around me in a way I don't see him smile around his wife. I've noticed he's been working out recently.

Anyway, up next: my interview with Klaus Barbie

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

scratched a mole hard enough to bleed while not paying attention last night, but now i can't do anything but think about it stress its not even itchy today but i wana tug on the scab

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i love watching really bad movies so i’ve had this on my radar for a while, but is passion of the christ as antisemitic as its sought out to be? i was planning on pirating but idk i don’t really want to watch something hateful

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

deleting your account once you get banned is the coward's way out

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just drank half of a 1.75 liter handle of vodka. I barely feel it. It's like I'm fucking sober. (See, I can even type!) Chugging more, really want to get out there, but scared I can't anymore.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

That's probably too much, you do you boo but be safe

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