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posted by Miles Howe on Feb 10, 2012 - View profile

Halifax

Community Solidarity Rally

Support Public Services in Halifax


1:00pm
- 3:00pm
Sunday February 12 2012

Venue: Grand Parade Square
The Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council invites you to a community solidarity rally on Sunday, February 12 at 1:00 pm at Grand Parade in front of City Hall in support of our transit workers and our water workers.

The transit strike is still ongoing, and it appears Halifax Regional Municipality's Water Workers may be heading toward a strike as well in the very near future. We want to show support for our transit workers and water workers and tell HRM to protect public services and sign a fair deal.

Please join us for the rally and show your support for. After the rally, everyone is invited to head to the ATU office in Dartmouth for a solidarity BBQ :)

Hope to see you there!

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE TRANSIT WORKERS & WATER WORKERS IN HALIFAX:

• PUT UP A "WE SUPPORT OUR TRANSIT WORKERS" POSTER in the window or door of your home and/or union office showing your support:
Posters are available at the Labour Council's website at http://HalifaxLabour.ca/, and there is a direct link for the POSTER (in colour) at http://bit.ly/TransitSupportPoster or in black & white at http://bit.ly/TransitSupportPoster-BW

• CALL or TEXT Mayor Peter Kelly and tell him to protect public services and negotiate a fair deal with the Halifax Transit Workers and Halifax Water Workers:
Mayor Kelly’s Cell: 902.222.9999, Office: 902.490.4010

• You can also EMAIL Mayor Kelly at: kellyp@halifax.ca or TWEET at him on Twitter at: @MayorPeterKelly

• CALL or EMAIL your local Halifax Regional Councilor
Look up your Councilor and their contact info at: http://www.halifax.ca/districts/index.html

• WRITE Letters to the Editor
Email the Chronicle Herald at letters@herald.ca - Letters must be no longer than 200 words.

• Stay Up-To-Date by FOLLOWING the “We Support Our Transit Workers” page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HalifaxTransitSupport as well as checking the websites of the Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council (at http://HalifaxLabour.ca/), ATU Local 508 (at http://ATU508.ca/) and and CUPE Local 227 (at http://www.227.cupe.ca/).


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