[Montreal] Angry Precarious Workers Contingent At This Weekend's May Day Demo

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Angry Precarious Workers Contingent
Saturday April 29th
Meet at parc Théodore
MÉTRO Viau, corner Théodore & Hochelaga
at 12 noon

*Against Insecurity, For Militancy*

Every day we experience insecurity and vulnerability at work and in our living conditions in general. The bosses and the government pass laws that continuously push us further into poverty while privileging their own interests; just look at the court orders the State issues during strikes to limit the number of strikers on the picket lines, such as the recent Bill 142… Our economic situation come from political decisions which are a direct result of the economic system in which we are living.

It is clear to see the that tactics of concertation and strictly legal struggle of the big trade unions are incapable of delivering anything but defeat and concessions to the constant attacks of the bosses and the government. This strategy has proven useless in defending workers’ interests.

Now it is up to us to create an alternative. Our numbers, our commitment and our solidarity should be put into play to build a militant and democratic social movement, united in solidarity.

Workers and unemployed, from here and from elsewhere
Join the Angry Precarious Workers Contingent
Organized by the Réseau de Solidarité des Travailleuses et Travailleurs
(RST) and the Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ)
Endorsed by Solidarity Across Borders and No One Is Illegal

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Call For A Precarious Workers Contingent in the April 29th Union Demonstration

The Réseau de Solidarité des Travailleuses et Travailleurs (Workers Solidarity Network) and the Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (Association for Student Union Solidarity) are inviting you to join with us in a « Precarious » Contingent in the demonstration organized by the big trade unions to make May Day. The contingent will promote a fighting unionism, in opposition to the tactic of concertation of the big trade unions, which tend to abandon those sectors of the workforce consider unprofitable.

The demands of the “precarious” contingent are:

1. For a free, secular, quality, non-discriminatory public education system, assessable to all.


2. Against precarity at any level of the workforce


3. For the regularization of all undocumented people and a stop to all deportations


4. For decent and accessible housing


5. Against poverty


6. For a militant and democratic social movement, united in solidatity.

Saturday April 29th
Meet at parc Théodore
MÉTRO Viau, corner Théodore & Hochelaga
at 12 noon

the Réseau de Solidarité des Travailleuses et Travailleurs (RST) and the Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ)

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TRANSLATORS NOTE: i have translated the above call out and statement from the RST and ASSÉ; their contingent sounds like it will be the most interesting thing at the trade union May Day demo (held this year on April 29th).

Please note that i have translated the French word “precaire” as “precarious”, even though i know it is unwieldy and does not have the same connotation. More standard translations would be “casual workers”, “temp workers”, “at risk workers”, “poor people”, etc. but all of these have more specific or different meanings than the one intended by this contingent. By “precaire” (or precarious in this translation) what is basically meant is all those marginalized and severely exploited and vulnerable sections of the working class which are generally abandoned by the trade union movement and social democratic left (my analysis, not anyone else’s!).