Steelworkers Rally This Weekend

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 03:57 AM

Prince George, B.C. - The local 1-424 of the United Steel workers in Prince George, are staging a rally this weekend to pressure the City to remove the temporary berm from River road. "The businesses along River Road have enough challenges without having to worry about the impact this berm is having on their businesses" says Local 1-424 President Frank Everitt.

The Steelworkers plan to gather at 5th and Carney at noon on Saturday to raise awareness of the problems being caused by the raising of River Road. "The raised road makes it more difficult to bring products in and outof the area" says Everitt.

This will be the second rally by Steelworkers this week. Yesterday, the Steelworkers local 1-417 rallied in Kamloops outside the office of Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Kevin Krueger. The union says the Campbell government has ignored the closure of the Weyerhaeuser Kamloops sawmill.

Speakers at the Kamloops rally criticized the government for its lack of action in assisting forest workers and communities.

Some 200 workers employed directly in the sawmill are having their jobs eliminated while the Domtar pulp mill in Kamloops has to source its fibre supply from other companies.

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 9 2008 7:42 AM

In my experience the 1-417 Union will have a better chance of convincing Weyerhaeuser to commit economic suicide, than getting the city of PG to be reasonable.

Now if the homeless bums around town would complain to the media about their problems pushing a "shopping" cart down the River Road, well we couldn't do that to the bums could we! That is when the city will prove they care. I'm sure the city would jump right in there and pave a little strip down the middle of the road for shopping carts.

Posted by: RedRock on April 9 2008 7:48 AM

I salute the Steel Workers and their team
to be proactive, protecting our jobs lets hope the weather is good and lots of people show up in support them in their action!!
We need to send a message to this city that their anti business and anti jobs strategy will effect everybody.

November elections cant come soon enough!!!!!!!

Posted by: sportsman on April 9 2008 7:39 PM

I wonder how many people will show up, they aren't going to be paid for this rally. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Posted by: dunfor on April 9 2008 9:09 PM

go get retrained and carry on with life.