History is all about great people making big changes. Throughout times past, time and again, brave men and women have banded together when they felt they were being discriminated against, and stood up for their rights. It’s not only revolutions, such as the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, where brave men have stepped forward to fight for their freedom. Human history is replete with instances in which courageous men and women have stepped forward onto centre stage in more subtle but equally effective ways that helped shape societies.

The first unions were formed in the 1800s in Europe and America when common working men on those continents said, “Enough is enough,” and banded together to form the first unions of organized labour. These organizations, simple though they were, were the precursors of the unions that exist today in Canada and countries like it. The first unions may not have achieved great things and workers may have still had to work in horrendous conditions. But they were the beginning. Those men from those days were the trailblazers when it came to fighting for workers rights. And now its up to us to carry the torch forward into the 21st century and beyond.

How the Blue Collar Union of Canada fares rests entirely in your hands. It can stay a dream in the minds of an isolated group of idealistic reactionaries. Or it can take root and grow into a strong and powerful tool that Canada’s working class can wield in order to achieve things that reach far wider and higher than anybody could have ever imagined up until now.

The choice is up to you. It is up to YOU, the everyday blue collar employee in this country as to how far we go, because in the end it is about YOU and no one else. It is about YOU, the labourer, the tradesman, the truckdriver, stevedore, agriculture worker, or waitress. It is even about the single mother struggling to raise her child as she works a parttime job. It is about all of us in the blue collar sector, the men and women who toil with our hands in order to secure a roof over our heads and to put food on the table. We didn’t ask for this life of hardship. It is what we were born into through no choice of our own. But that doesn’t mean we can’t change things. That doesn’t mean we can’t do something about our lot in life to ensure a better existence for ourselves and our children and grandchildren who come after us.

That is why you must help us form this union. It is the only chance you have to get the life you’ve always wanted and which you know you deserve. You will never have a better chance to pull yourself out of the hard life you’ve been relegated to. So sign up. Say, “POWER TO THE CANADIAN WORKERS!!!” and join the team.