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).
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the new season of futurama sucks so bad. it's genuinely amazing how they managed to make several episodes worse than the eyephone one from the last time they trotted out this IP's corpse
*looks at imdb episode list*
yeah i'm not watching that shit lol
don't worry, i watched the first 10 minutes and i know for a fact that it sucks
actually I kinda want to watch it now. Zapp is this extremely creepy sex pest who constantly makes uncalled for sexual advances toward women around him. Are they really going to use this character to critisize cancel culture?
The entire episode was more a long version of this joke.
Yeah, I was kind of against the reboot. Futurama had an absolutely amazing ending when it ended last time. When it was originally aired, they aired the first episode of the series right afterwards to reset the timeline. The idea of Fry and Leela's story being permanently contained within those years is really beautiful. Choosing to do everything over with each other again is so much more impactful than "uh oh we're 20 years in the future, crypto!".
zapp brannigan was canceled in the newest episode. it literally could not be worse
Oh my God I'm so tired of old people making episodes on people being cancelled. New Clone High did it too, but at least that one had a funny twist with it.
it was miserable. i had to turn it off halfway through because i could tell it was a writer's room of people who have contempt for every generation after them
It wasn't executed well, but I think it was trying to riff on how cynical management is. Episode ended with Leela having to trick a less developed planet into signing away its air rights, and getting fired because she wouldn't do the planets contract ceremony (getting sexually harassed).