Submitted on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 6:26pm

On Monday, March 9th, the Industrial Worker of the World Union - Montreal (IWW / SITT), as well as several citizens, occupied Quebec's Minister of Family and Seniors' office building. This action is part of the movement against austerity measures and in our campaign for a social strike on May 1, 2015.

Today, many workers are directly confronted with the effects of budget cuts to health services, to municipal employees, to firemen and firewomen, to postal workers, to students, to workers in the private sector... Yet, resistance is organizing itself everywhere. We will not let different governments (whether conservative or liberal) and the bosses impose their anti-social measures on us. The time of a minority enriching itself on the back of an impoverished majority is finished.against austerity measures and in our campaign for a social strike on May 1, 2015.

Our unity allows us to wage a radical struggle in the face of the bosses' logic. This struggle must only grow. against austerity measures and in our campaign for a social strike on May 1, 2015.

The various governmental funding cuts will impact the services and the quality of those public services. The job cuts in CPE and childcare will have serious consequences for the workers of these institutions since their jobs are now at stake, but the cuts also touches all users who don't have the means to pay for individual care services. Once again it'll be the poor who will end up bearing the brunt of these cuts. In today's response we wanted to show our solidarity and express our anger at the deterioration of public services.against austerity measures and in our campaign for a social strike on May 1, 2015.

The IWW / SITT calls for mobilization towards a national general strike on May 1, 2015. We invite all workers to increase the quantity of blockades, sabotage and occupation of restricted areas. against austerity measures and in our campaign for a social strike on May 1, 2015.

Against the bosses' rules: Union Struggle – General Strike!

IWW Montreal