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Broadbent says Fleck strike is symbol
of femate fight for pay equality
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Action on the Fleck picket
line remained relatively
calm this week, the major
situation being a visit to the
Huron Park site by federal
NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
He arrived around 6:00
a.m., Monday and joined
about 70 demonstrators in a
march around the plant. The
visit was cut short by cool
temperatures.
In his brief remarks,
Broadbent suggested the
strike is becoming a
national symbol of the
female fight for pay equality
in the workplace. He told
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strikers he suspected if the
small union local had been
predominantly male, the
strike would have been settl
ed long ago.
The NDP leader said the
wages at the plant are at the
poverty level and the com
pany offers, so far, had been
a disgrace. Rates at the
plant were $2.85 an hour,
reaching $3.24 after 10
years. Indications are that
most of the people who have
crossed the picket line have
received raises above those
figures since the strike
began about three months
ago.
“Canadian women earn
just over half what Canadian
men earn,” Broadbent said.
“If there ever was a
justified strike, this is it.”
The Fleck strike received
more national prominence
this week when it was1 the
topic of a portion of Monday
night’s Newsmagazine
program on CBC television.
It is also creating some in-
. ternal problems for
members of the Ontario
cabinet and the Ontario
Provincial Police.
Friday, Solicitor-General
George Kerr said he had
asked Industry and Tourism
Minister John Rhodes to
seek an injunction to limit
the number of pickets atr
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Fleck, but Rhodes refused.
Kerr said limiting of pickets
would substantially reduce
policing costs which have
risen to more than $1
million.
Rhodes reported on Mon
day the main responsibility
for getting an injunction
would
pany.
which
park
would
other
were
picketing.
Over-reacted
One of the most unusual
aspects of the strike oc
curred Wednesday when
OPP Commissioner Harold
Graham told the
legislature’s justice com
mittee that an unnecessary
number of police officers
were used to break through
a picket line on May 24.
It was seen as a public
rebuke to Staff Superinten
dent Hugh Garry who made
the decision to order 46 riot-
equipped police to advance
on demonstrators blocking a
company bus at the plant’s
rear doors.
Graham said it was “cer
tainly” not necessary to
have about one police officer
for every demonstrator. He
said the decision was
Garry’s and the superinten
dent had been made aware
of the commissioner’s disap
proval.
In another legislative
committee hearing, the
lawyer for the United Auto
Workers charged Thursday
that “union-busting”
statements by Huron-
Middlesex MPP Jack
Riddell have helped prolong
the strike at Fleck.
Lennox MacLean said
statements by the Liberal
MPP in March about cer
tification of the UAW at
Fleck “inflamed” an
already tense labor dispute
and “I daresay contributed
to the fact the strike is still
on”.
MacLean appeared as a
witness before the
legislature’s procedural af
fairs committee which is
holding a hearing into a
complaint by Riddell that
legal action initiated against
him by the union breached
his privileges as an MPP.
The union has applied to
the Ontario Labor Relations
Board for consent to
prosecute Riddell for
rest with the com-
The government,
owns the industrial
through the ODC,
only be involved if
tenants of the park
barred entry by
violations of the Ontario
Labor Relations Act and has
also served him with notice
of intent to sue under the
Libel and Slander Act.
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