On this day in 1978, United Steelworkers union workers in Sudbury, Ontario voted to go on strike to fight proposed layoffs and pay cuts. The strike was the longest in Canadian history until the record was broken by Sudbury workers in 2009.
The layoffs and cuts to pay and benefits were at the multi-national company Inco, which cited low nickel prices as a justification.
According to filmmaker Martin Duckworth, workers voted to strike against the advice of the United Steelworkers hierarchy, and the strike enjoyed national support because Inco was a known polluter and one of the biggest multi-nationals in Canada.
Around 11,600 workers were involved in the strike, which affected the wages sustaining 43,000 people, or about 26% of the population of metropolitan Sudbury. By the end of the strike, nine months later, the company had been deprived of over twenty-two million hours of labor.
The workers won small wage increase and a pension package, however thousands of workers lost their homes and cars because of the length of the strike. According to journalist Amy Miller, since 1979, INCO has fired 20,000 employees from their staff and now have more people receiving payments from the pension roll than pay roll.
The role of women in the community during the strike was profiled in the 1980 documentary film A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes).
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Do you reckon a lot of people having to self diagnose their mental health because they don't have access to healthcare can lead to a situation where, for example, you figure out you have some kind of anxiety disorder so you identify as anxious to the point where you can't take healthy steps to be more outgoing or alleviate your anxiety because that would take away your identity? See, I don't know where the line is between not letting myself stagnate and grow as a person and not just push myself to discomfort and pretend I'm normal just because that's what the world expects of me.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I'm kind of in the same place, although technically I do have access to care. But I think that there definitely is that struggle of being in a place where you are comfortable and trying to hard to be normal.
I don't know that I necessarily see addressing my anxiety as taking away from my identity. Anytime I've been able to overcome my anxiety and become friends with people I feel like I'm able to separate my anxiety from my identity. Like yeah, I could kind of see how someone could feel that way, especially since I think most people's perception of oneself is that of someone who might be a bit awkward or quirky.
In the end I think it all comes down to how you want to confront that anxiety. Is it something you want to get rid of completely or would you rather just accept it as a part of who you are and navigate life confronting that anxiety in a positive manner.