Down in the Vale: Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, And the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010 (United Steelworkers) (Report) Down in the Vale: Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, And the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010 (United Steelworkers) (Report)

Down in the Vale: Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, And the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010 (United Steelworkers) (Report‪)‬

Labour/Le Travail 2010, Fall, 66

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THIS ARTICLE ASSESSES ONE of the longest private sector strikes in Canadian history--the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 strike at Vale in Sudbury, 2009-2010. It argues that in the context of corporate globalization and the recent financial crisis, Vale took full advantage of its economic power to win major concessions from Local 6500. The USW's community, political, and corporate campaigns were unable to pressure the company or the federal and provincial government effectively and the result was that a powerful international corporation prevailed in its efforts to erode the material well-being of its Canadian workforce. Such a defeat, alongside the recent collective bargaining concessions by auto workers in Canada and the United States, is a major blow to the North American labour movement. Trade unions must therefore develop more successful strategies of resistance and begin the process of reforming and rejuvenating themselves as organizations defending workers. If this is not done the future of North American labour is bleak indeed. CET ARTICLE PROPOSE UNE EVALUATION d'une des plus longues greves du secteur prive au Canada: celle du local 6500 du Syndicat des Metallos (USW) aux installations de Vale a Sudbury en 2009-2010. La these avancee est que, dans le contexte de la recente crise financiere et de la mondialisation economique, Vale a pris pleinement avantage de son pouvoir economique afin de gagner des concessions majeures du Local 6500. La communaute des Metallos, et les campagnes politiques ont ete incapables de faire pression sur la compagnie ou sur les gouvernements federal et provincial de maniere efficace. Le resultat a ete qu'une compagnie multinationale puissante l'a emporte dans ses efforts pour ronger le bien-etre materiel de la main d'oevre canadienne. Une telle defaite, qui s'accompagne des recentes concessions faites lors de negociations collectives par les travailleurs de l'automobile au Canada et aux Etats-Unis, represente un choc et un coup majeur contre le mouvement ouvrier en Amerique du Nord. Par consequent, les syndicats doivent developper des strategies de resistance plus fructueuses et entamer un processus pour se reformer et se rajeunir en tant qu'organisations defendant les travailleurs. Si ceci ne se realise pas, alors l'avenir des travailleurs d'Amerique du Nord sera effectivement bien morne.

GÉNERO
Negocios y finanzas personales
PUBLICADO
2010
22 de septiembre
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
63
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Canadian Committee on Labour History
TAMAÑO
371,2
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