Walking the Line with Local 1005
At the Gates of U.S. Steel
The wind blows cold down at the Wicox St. entrance to the U.S. Steel Hamilton plant. I've come down to talk to the locked out workers of USWA Local 1005, formerly employees of Stelco, now of multinational mega-corporation U.S. Steel.
In November of 2010 the 900 remaining workers of U.S. Steel were locked out after heated contract negotiations. The corporation argued that existing pensions could not be sustained for new hirees, and that cost-of-living increases to existing pensions would have to stop. The union refused to see their pensions dismantled, and with no agreement, U.S. Steel shut out the workers.
Wind-Thrown Ironwoods: Tales from a splintered land
The forest at Iroquoia Heights has a unique composition and a strong diversity of plants, mammals, and birds. Forest fragmentation is a cause of this uniqueness but also makes the forest vulnerable.
Hamilton Herstory
In 1983 a weekly mothers' group convened at the Hamilton Women's Centre. The centre was housed within the stone foundation of the sprawling Zion United Church. The two facilitators were new graduates with bachelor's degrees in psychology. Their courses had included a dynamic Sociology of Women course headed by Meg Luxton.
Workplace Safety: Know your Rights
The accident resulted in criminal charges against Metron, its President, Joel Swartz, and two supervisors, and prompted a panel review of Ontario's Workplace Health & Safety system.
The True Story Behind the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides
"Propaganda". What does the word invariably suggest, but that we are above it. Certainly we could never fall for the Big Lie and certainly not one of the largest lies to be perpetrated in modern history. A lie whose grim shadow covers the restive ghosts of some three to six millions souls awaiting the truth.
For the truth is that Paul Kagame, his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and their allies are responsible for the Rwandan "genocide" of 1994 and the multiple follow-up genocides in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1996 to the present. Kagame and the RPF, the very actors who claimed to be the victims and saviours, share this responsibility with those who allegedly came to their "aid": i.e. the leading political figures in the United States, Britain, Canada, Belgium, Uganda, and Tanzania. The United Nations was also complicit, as were numerous Western NGOs, prominent American journalists and virtually the entirety of the Western corporate press.
A Letter from the Editors
The start of a new year is a natural time to reflect on the past year and consider what the future may hold.
This year it's especially easy for us to do this since last January marked the beginning of our partnership. A year in the life of two Mayday editors has been filled with a plethora of challenges, risks, criticisms, as well as exciting stories from many new and familiar voices.
