Where is the Solidarity with Canadian Truckers?

 

 

What happened to the solidarity among labor unions in the labor movement? Labor unions in the USA and Canada have not supported the work stoppage by the Canadian truckers.

Starting with FDR’s signing of the National Labor Relations Act that gave workers the right to organize to form labor unions and required unions and employers to bargain in good faith, the Democrats and most of the media supported the rights of workers to withhold their services or strike to achieve their goals. It was accepted that workers have a right to withhold their services to bargain for better working conditions and pay.

When a union struck other unions supported the strike by not crossing picket lines and providing financial and moral support.

Courts did not issue injunctions to end the strike unless the strike violated a no-strike provision in the labor agreement. Courts did issue injunctions to limit mass picketing.

The key is that the right of workers to withhold their services was respected and protected. The courts did punish those who engaged in violence, such as destruction of company property or attacks on other employees, but peaceful strikes and protests were allowed.

Given this it is amazing that Canadian unions, led by the Canadian Labour Congress, and American labor unions, led by the AFL-CIO, and the Democratic Media have not supported the Canadian truckers.

The truckers stopped working to protest the Canadian government’s mandate that all truckers get vaccinated, and failure to do so would result in losing their jobs. While most of the truckers are vaccinated, they oppose the mandate and believe it should be a personal choice.

The website of the Canadian Labour Congress states under “What Unions Do”:

“When workers unite, they make things better for everyone. That’s why unions were created to stand up together for fair wages, safe workplaces and decent work hours. There are millions of union members in Canada who know that by standing together, they can accomplish great things for themselves and all workers.”

What Unions Do | Canadian Labour Congress

Evidently neither the AFL-CIO nor the Canadian Labour Congress care that these workers, the truckers, united to stand together for their rights.

Justin “Fidel” Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, assumed dictatorial powers under the Canada’s Emergency Powers Act which states:

“3 For the purposes of this Act, a national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that

• (a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or
• (b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.”

Emergencies Act (justice.gc.ca)

There were no hearings or debates in Parliament on whether the facts justified the use of the Emergencies Act.

Trudeau unilaterally, without notice and bargaining with the workers, ordered all to be vaccinated. He changed the terms of employment. Little Fidel created the crisis then invoked the Emergencies Law to assume dictatorial powers.

The order affects the terms and conditions of employment. Some of the truckers are employees and some are self-employed.

While stating that the bridges and roads must be re-opened, Fidel went beyond re-opening bridges and roads. He has threatened to cancel the truckers’ insurance, freeze their bank accounts, suspend their licenses, and arrest them, among other actions.

Fidel must make Brandon Biden and his gang of totalitarians wish for the Canada Emergencies Act.

Contrast the lack of support for the Canadian truckers with the support for the Solidarity union movement in Poland in 1980.

In 1980, Polish workers at the Gdansk shipyard, led by Lech Walesa, engaged in a strike that spread throughout Poland. The Polish workers formed a union called Solidarity (SOLIDARNOSC) that grew to over ten million people, about 80% of the state employees.

Poland’s Solidarity Movement (1980-1989) | ICNC (nonviolent-conflict.org)

The Polish workers risked their lives and fortune for freedom against the communist party government of Poland, a puppet regime of the Soviet Union.

Solidarity was supported by the AFL-CIO, President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and many others. This led to the downfall of the Polish government, elections, and was instrumental in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and freedom for the eastern bloc countries such as Poland, Hungary, Romania, and others.

While the Canadian government, before Fidel’s use of the Emergencies Act, cannot be compared to the communist party government of Poland, the principle of the right of workers to exercise their right to withhold their service and to protest government action is the same.

The Solidarity movement began the process to get rid of the communist totalitarian regimes. Trudeau uses the Trucker movement to crush dissent. Little Fidel may fail like the communist regimes that were brought down by Solidarity.

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