Brant NDP Nomination Meeting

BRANT NDP

Federal Candidate Nomination Meeting

Remember, remember the 5th of November

Date:
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Time:

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location:

Brantford District Labour Council

Street:

1100 Clarence St S

City/Town:

Brantford, ON

If you are reading this, then you are welcome to come out and have fun as we nominate our Federal Candidate for Brant.

Our first big event to officially kick off the campaign!
All are welcome and encouraged to come. The more people the better. While only NDP members in good standing for 30 days or more can vote a Nomination Meeting is about more than just voting for the person who is going to run in the next federal election.
I've met with several members of this community over the last several weeks since announcing my intention to run. Your support in words has been immeasurable. For those of you who can please consider coming to this meeting to add a voice and momentum to that support!
Nominations Meetings Help:
- Show this community there is a need for change. Media will be present.
- Provide a chance to get to know your candidate better and find out what that person is about.
- You meet other people in the community and the party.
Snacks will be provided and social time will be promoted.
Together we go further!
-Marc Laferriere
Federal Nominee Brant NDP
Web: www.brantmarc.caEmail:
laferriere.marc@gmail.com

Hope to see everyone again,

Brian

Songs from the laid off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV711foX3-4&feature=autofb

HST and Harper....

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/06/f-hst-tax-0106.html#socialcomments

The federal government is ardently hoping the backlash from the HST will be directed toward the two provincial governments. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday during question period that his government believes that sales taxes should come down, which is why the GST was lowered.

But the fact is the federal government is aiding and abetting the provinces. It plans to pay B.C. and Ontario almost $6 billion to ease the transition to the HST

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That is the Government is spending $6Billion in one year to bring us a Tax Increase, and is only putting back 900Million into EI over 3 years.Fair Trade???

Anti Scab Bill (Replacement Workers) Dies at 2nd reading

Mr. Peter Kormos: A well-known comment that has been around with us for approximately a century, and I'm quoting now:

"After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab."A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumour of rotten principles."When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out."No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not."Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army. The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer."Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."That's what Jack London had to say back in 1905. Almost a century has gone by now, and those words, those comments and those observations are as relevant as they ever could be. The greatest single impediment to fair collective bargaining is scab labour. The largest single source of injuries on a picket line is scab labour.Here in Ontario we had a brief period of time after 1990 where the New Democrats were in power and scabs were outlawed, like they are in some other jurisdictions in this country. The absence of labour unrest during that time when anti-scab legislation was in effect was remarkable. When there were strikes, they were shorter-or, even worse, lockouts. I believe sincerely, the New Democrats believe sincerely and working women and men believe sincerely that scabs are an abomination.No worker ever joins the picket line willingly. Let's make that very, very clear, because when you're on a picket line, you're out there day in, day out. If it's wintertime, when winter's approaching, you're out there in the coldest of winter days and in the slush and the snow where you never get warm and your feet never get dry.Collective bargaining takes place at the bargaining table. To allow corporate bosses to circumvent, to avoid, collective bargaining at the table by importing scabs is once again an outrage. I believe, New Democrats believe, that as long as scabs are allowed in the province of Ontario, strikes will be longer and lockouts will be longer.Why, for the life of me, would anyone want to be a scab? Well, in the type of economy that we've developed, where there are more and more unemployed and people are earning lower and lower wages, sometimes family heads, women or men, feel compelled to take any job at any price. But they're very short-sighted, because the effect of scabbing, especially now, when the theme in labour relations by the corporate world is to end defined benefits-pension plans-and when the agenda of the corporate world is to reduce wages and when the agenda is to reduce workforces-scabs simply join with that agenda. They endorse it and they support it and they advocate for it and they make that agenda possible.

----------------------------------And the Vote.....................................
Ayes

Bisson, Gilles

Gélinas,France

Hampton, Howard

Horwath, Andrea

Kormos, Peter

Levac, Dave

Marchese, Rosario

Miller, Paul

Prue, Michael

Tabuns, Peter

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Nays

Arthurs, Wayne

Balkissoon, Bas

Berardinetti, Lorenzo

Best, Margarett

Cansfield, Donna

H.Colle, Mike

Dhillon, Vic

Duguid, Brad

Fonseca, Peter

Jaczek, Helena

Jeffrey, Linda

Johnson, Rick

Klees, Frank

Lalonde, Jean-Marc

Mangat, Amrit

Miller, Norm

Moridi, Reza

Phillips, Gerry

Rinaldi, Lou

Ruprecht, Tony

Sergio, Mario

Sousa, Charles

Takhar, Harinder

S.Wynne, Kathleen

O.Zimmer, David

5th Estate Severance, Termination Pay, Alumetco

The 5th Estate does a credible job following the bankruptcy of Edscha with additional commentary from Alumetco (CAW) closure in Brantford.

This is a must watch.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/the_education_of_brian_nicholl/

In 2007, the Ontario Liberals refused to help. It's no different in 2009.

The Ontario Liberals turned their backs on saving our jobs, our severance and our termination pay. Since 2007 the former employee of Genfast continue to hold the Federal and Provincial Governments accountable.

Since our closure, the Wage Earner Protection Act has come into law. Too late for Genfast Employees, however, this legislation helps those whose companies have declared bankruptcy or used bankruptcy provisions to continue global operations and avoid their legal obligations in Canada and Ontario.

As long as our governments allow the pillaging of our industrial sector, closures and orchestrated bankruptcies will remain to be a monthly occurance.

There is little indication that the government realizes the technology that is leaving and let alone the jobs that are lost.

Book your ride to Queens Park on Thursday

The Bus leaves Brantford District Labour Centre at 9:30 AM
To secure your spot follow the link.


http://www.brantfordlabourcouncil.ca/strikes-and-lockouts--boycotts.html

Open to anyone.

Genfast Severance Crew (update)

Volunteers gathered during the Severance meeting held by Rob Mason will be meeting on Monday to discuss the situation regarding the monetary case before the courts.

Reminder.

There are Six Court dates scheduled in February 2010.

MNP corporation closed Genfast in April 2007.

Brantford District Labour Council

Brantford District Labour Council has a new website.

Check it out here.

http://www.brantfordlabourcouncil.ca/