A day of defiance: More walkouts, protests coming to support teachers, ..

.. unions say
Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Doug Ward and Miro Cernetig
Vancouver Sun



VICTORIA -- More labour protests and walkouts to pressure the provincial Liberal government to make a deal with 38,000 striking teachers will hit northern B.C. today and escalate elsewhere in the province after that, union leaders said Monday.

The warnings came after 12,000 teachers and their supporters descended on the B.C. legislature lawn Monday to demand that Premier Gordon Campbell begin negotiating an end to an illegal strike that hit schools on Oct. 7, keeping more than 600,000 students out of classrooms.

In what they are warning is a taste of what is to come, unionized municipal workers and other public servants walked off the job on Vancouver Island in a noisy, raucous demonstration that paralysed Victoria's downtown and disrupted bus service and government services for much of the day. <snip>

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=5dfc72aa-d59d-43c6-9f21-4403eda7cb67

in Victoria.

importance of worker solidarity. Seeing that pic does my heart good. My husband had neighbors who years ago retired to a beautiful home in Victoria overlooking the water. One of our favorite places to visit.