Joint statement, week of action denounce “Vale’s damaging, regressive agenda.”

Working people in several countries will hold public demonstrations and events next month during a “Global Week of Action” to denounce Vale Inco’s aggressive, destructive attacks on workers and communities.

The April 5-11 week of action was announced today, a day after more than 5,000 people marched and rallied in Sudbury to support Canadian workers under attack by Brazil-based Vale.

More than 3,000 Steelworkers in Sudbury, Port Colborne and Voisey’s Bay, NL, are in the ninth month of a strike against Vale and its contract-gutting demands on profit-sharing, pensions, job security, contracting out and seniority rights ... more