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(TORONTO) -- Fifteen long months later, and three days after the start of intensive labour action, word has finally come that Engineered Coated Products (ECP) Brantford is ready to get down to business.
(TORONTO) -- At 9 a.m., unions and community supporters will march from Engineer Coated Products (ECP) Brantford, 369 Elgin St., where production has been halted for the past two days, to the Brantford Court House, 80 Wellington Street.
(TORONTO) -- Yesterday, Premier Dalton McGuinty said that anti-scab legislation was not needed and that “most” disputes were settled by negotiation. “It’s bad judgment to turn real people into nothing more than statistics,” OFL President Sid Ryan told the Premier in yesterday’s open letter.
We are writing to you from the Engineered Coated Products (ECP) picket line on the first day of a three-day labour action designed to pressure the company to fulfill its legal obligations and get back to the bargaining table.
(TORONTO) -- The first hour into the labour picket and solidarity action at one of Canada’s worst employers, Engineered Coated Products (ECP) in Brantford, and the labour movement is declaring a huge victory as ECP halts operations.
(TORONTO) -- Tomorrow, Wed., Sept. 15, marks the beginning of the first leg of the Ontario campaign for the reinstatement of anti-scab legislation. Led by the OFL, Brantford and District Labour Council, USW Local I-500 and Ontario largest unions, a massive three-day anti-scab rally and picket line will take place at Engineered Coated Products (ECP) 369 Elgin Street, Brantford.
In the City of Brantford, less than two hours from Toronto, 84 brave workers have been on strike against their employer for the past two years. The employer has managed to keep these workers out on strike for two long years because they have been busing scabs across the picket lines. The employer, ECP, has demanded a 25% rollback in wages and benefits which the membership of USW Local 1-500 have bravely resisted. Not one striker out of the 84 has crossed the picket line.
(TORONTO) -- Work, or lack of it, is the central element around which our lives are organized. But the very nature and value of our work are being upended.
