Baskaran Appu and Ruth Gray
Salt miners on strike
in Ontario win support
GODERICH, OntarioA strike by some 350 salt miners against the Sifto Salt company is holding firm and attracting solidarity from the labor movement in the area. The workers, who are members of Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 16-0, walked out April 14. The massive mine, which is 1,750 feet deep, one and a half miles wide, and extends two miles under Lake Huron, supplies a major portion of the North American market. The workers voted by 99 percent to strike after the bosses handed them a take-it-or-leave-it offer that ignored their demands for an end to forced overtime, contracting out of union jobs, company respect for seniority, improvements to the benefits plan, and a 4 percent wage increase.
Annette Kouri and John Steele
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