An NDP response

I received this mail today from Brian Van Til Borg who along with the rest of the exec and the USW are burning themselves out on our behalf. The Expositor was sent this by the local NDP in response to comments in the paper after Howard Hampton came to the rally in front of Genfast last Tuesday. The Expositor has not yet printed this.

from
Brian Van Tilborg

ps. here is an email that was fired off from the NDP as a letter to the
editor after the article on Wednesday. It wasn't put in todays paper. I
am not certain why this letter wasn't printed after a front page
article the previous day.

Pass this around if you like.

quote:


The Brant NDP, Jack Layton, and Howard Hampton are fully aware of what has
occurred at Genfast Manufacturing.

The employees have had their vacations cancelled. Some employees cut
short vacations that were already in progress.These workers were told
to return to work or that they wouldn't be paid for the time off to
which they were fully entitled. They complied and returned to work,
only to have the rug pulled out from under them. On top of this, as of
today, they still have not received any of the wages owed to them or
any part of their vacation pay.

The entire workforce of Genfast, including salaried workers,
management, and unionized steelworkers, have had their livelihood
robbed from them by their unscrupulous American parent company, MNP
Corporation. It seems abundently clear that this contemptable company
is hell-bent on doing everything in it's power to make certain that
Genfast cannot rise from the ashes, thus preventing this skilled labour force
from returning to work in a productive, competitive and profitable
environment. The Brant NDP understands that there are many victims in
this orchestrated plant closure, including several local suppliers, who were
also led down the garden path.

The Brant NDP will not sit idly by and allow these kinds of companies
to get away with
robbing our technology, our jobs and our workers' livelyhoods and
security from our community.
The silence on plant closures in Brantford has gone on for far, far, too long.
The Brant NDP will do everything we possibly can to try to correct this
injustice.


Chris Otis and Keith Martin, Brant NDP

I'd like to hear some comment on this.

later dave