Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:30pm - 4:30pm
May Day is an international day of recognition and celebration of worker solidarity and struggle. On Saturday, May 1st 2010, Halifax workers will gather and make a collective call for workers’ rights in the context of continued job loss, attacks on wages, pensions and benefits, and assaults on public services.
PSAC members have been specifically targeted by the spending freeze contained in the Harper Conservative’s budget. In the last month alone plans have been announced to eliminate 147 Citizenship and Immigration jobs in Sydney and 65 Canada Post jobs in Antigonish. Nova Scotia is also seeing a quiet program of centralization of Service Canada’s staff and cuts to services for the unemployed. The province also recently lost its Federal Labour Affairs Officer in Cape Breton and will lose its Human Rights Commission Office in the fall.
On May Day PSAC members need to be front and centre with our flags flying.
Join the fight for workers’ rights. Come out with family, friends and allies to the Annual May Day Rally and March on Saturday, May 1st at 1 pm at Victoria Park (located at Spring Garden Road and South Park Street). A Festival-Forum with Speakers, Videos, Spoken Word, Music and Food will follow at 2:30pm at the Mi'Kmaq Friendship Centre at 2158 Gottingen Street.
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PSAC will provide free bus transportation for supporters from Sydney and Antigonish who wish to attend. Please contact Mark Rogers at rogersm@psac.com or at 443-3541 or Lesley Thompson at thompsonL@psac.com or at 445-9392.
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