Sentences with phrase «of a general strike»
During the Socred government years of 1983 - 84, he was head of the BC Federation of Labour, fighting Bill Bennett's «restraint» budget while B.C. teetered on the edge of a general strike.
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(Note: I call them reformist in opposition to Arthaud and Poutou, the candidates from the OP, that are openly in favor of general strikes and popular revolutions).
In a unanimous vote on 10/28/11, the OEA Executive Board endorsed Occupy Oakland's November 2 «General Strike / Mass Day of Action» and is urging members to participate in a variety of ways, including taking personal leave to join actions at Frank Ogawa Plaza, doing informational picketing at school sites, and holding teach - ins on the history of general strikes and organizing for economic justice.
The superimposed image on the cover of Europe, Greece, Athens, Acropolis, is a micro-macro perspective on the week of general strikes in Athens in October 2011.
Labour Day weekend — that other national holiday, likely celebrated in B.C. with the beginnings of a general strike.