Help Get Rio Tinto Off The Podium - Say No To Rio Tinto's Tarnished Gold.
A few weeks ago I wrote to ask the public to give their support to the United Steelworkers - Canada campaign in support of the locked-out workers at a smelter owned by Rio Tinto in Alma Quebec Canada. Locked-out because they are resisting demands by Rio Tinto that would destroy hundreds of good trade union jobs. Thousands of you responded to that appeal. Today I am writing with an urgent new appeal and a new campaign, but on the same issue.
Rio Tinto is the official supplier of the metals that are used to make the medals handed out at the Olympics. If we can put pressure on the international Olympic Committee (IOC) to get Rio Tinto's products off the Olympic Podium the 780 workers on the picket line in Alma will be closer to getting back to work. Their families and their community will be closer to getting back to normal. Between 23rd and 25th May the Canadian Olympic Committee is hosting the IOC in Quebec City. The locked out steelworkers will be there. If you are unable to be there beside them, you can still send your them message's of solidarity. Before the 23rd send a message to the Canadian Olympic Committee demanding that they get Rio Tinto off the Olympic Podium.
Please send your message to the Canadian and International Olympic Committee. A copy will go to the locked-out-workers so that they will know that they have your support. It is not often that a global corporation like Rio Tinto is venerable to pressure from union members like you and I. Let us take full advantage of this opportunity. Please pass this message along to all your contacts. Time is short but if the word gets out we have a very real chance of making a difference.
In Solidarity
Derek Blackadder
Labour Start Canada, visit our web site: -
http://www.labourstart.org Mailing Address: - Labour Start,
4 Alexandra Park Road, London, N10 2AA
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