We Must Unionize
This is a great country. Lakes, forests, prairies and coastlines, we have it all. We have abundant natural resources, from agricultural land, to lumber, energy and minerals. So why is it that so many of us are stuck barely eking out a living? There has to be a good explanation as to why a guy breaking his back shoveling stone all day out in the hot sun, or driving long overnight shifts behind the wheel of a rig, or sweating it out on a tractor form dawn till after dusk, or performing any number of blue collar jobs earns a fraction of what some guy tapping a computer mouse makes in an airconditioned office. ALL blue collar jobs are important jobs. ALL blue collar jobs must be done if the economy of this country is going to thrive. Yet you wouldn’t guess this was the case if you looked at the pay rates and job conditions of the working class versus the middle class, that is, the blue collar sector versus the white collar one. If this country actually lived up to its claims to being a free society that respects human rights and equal treatment for everyone, these conditions wouldn’t exist. Yet bigshot politicians hypocritically spout all this crap about freedom and everyone else claps their hands adoringly.
Meanwhile, we in the working class are stuck doing all the hard work, which is the absolutely essential work, and getting peanuts in return. Unions have always been the weapon of choice of the working class to get better treatment in their lives. The first ones were formed in Europe and North America in the last half of the 1800s to counter the horrendous conditions that existed in the U.K., France, Germany and the U.S. at the time. More recently and up until the present labour unions are still being used to pressure politicians and company owners for better pay and conditions.
The Blue Collar Union of Canada aims to take this activity one step further by uniting every worker in the country in a blue collar job into a huge national union of working men and women. This has never been done in this country before. It will be a first for Canada if we at the Blue Collar Union of Canada, the BCUC, are successful. We are simply asking for your support at this stage. We want you to register with our staff on social media and on the main website which you can find by looking for the slogan “POWER TO THE CANADIAN WORKERS!!!”
Unionizing a group of people into a large organization is a simple concept. And it’s completely legal. Once every working person in Canada is registered in the BCUC, we move on to the next step, which is taking advantage of our position as a collective of proactive professionals. We will be able to take part in all the activities that one would typically associate with any union, and a lot more. We would be poised to stage legal strikes across the country. Imagine how easy it would be to organize individual activities throughout the nation on a profession by profession basis or according to location. We would have the ability to coordinate strikes as well as political movements, demonstrations, activist movements and more. There is so much more we can accomplish acting together as a unified team than acting as smaller units. That is why the BCUC is so important for the blue collar sector if we are to ever get equal treatment and respect for our rights.
By looking for the slogan, “POWER TO THE CANADIAN WORKERS!!!” when you go online, you will be taking the first step towards emancipating yourself from the chains of exploitation and changing your life.
