Freedom Flyer 11

CITY OF LONDON GARBAGE STRIKE

Imagine you're a political party dedicated to upholding the principles of individual freedom. Then along comes a Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) strike that halts essential services, including city curbside garbage collection. What do you, as an advocate of free minds and free markets, do? Simple. You start your own free garbage collection as a campaign to combine constructive protest with the promotion of private contracting as a means of introducing freedom of choice to municipal services!

Read the story of how Freedom Party trashed the garbage strike, and, incredibly, attracted the wrath of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for picking up garbage "without a permit"!

CANADA POST STRIKE

But the labour strife wasn't over yet. Later in the year, the Letter Carriers Union of Canada staged rotating strikes and slowdowns. Freedom Party's answer --- to "deliver" our own message to labour, management and and consumers: That open competition is the only long-term solution to the problems that plague Canada Post.

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO STRIKE

Freedom Party faced the Canadian Union of Public Employees a second time in 1987 --- this time, on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, where the union had called a strike of food services and maintenance workers.

UWO UNION CERTIFICATION DRIVE

...And, yet a third time, again on the UWO campus, Freedom Party faced CUPE. This time, we assisted University employees in successfully resisting a union certification drive. Over 2,000 "SAY NO!" brochures were distributed to every affected department at the University.

LETTERS ON LABOUR

MEET RAY MONTEITH

"I just love freedom, don't you?" --- Ray Monteith, Freedom Party candidate in Elgin

FREEDOM BRIEFS