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Avi Lewis: “No worker wants to give up their own wages to go on a picket line, but when you’re talking about bargaining in Canada…”

On the recordJune 5, 2026
No worker wants to give up their own wages to go on a picket line, but when you’re talking about bargaining in Canada, in a cost of living crisis, where people cannot afford groceries, cannot afford rent and mortgages, being paid a fair wage is our only hope for workers in Canada of getting out of this cost of living emergency, and it’s only the right to strike that balances the scales in labor negotiations, so that employers can’t just do what they want.
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Avi Lewis
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rabble.ca

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NDP leader supports repealing section 107.

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