Steel City Solidarity, Hamilton's solidarity network, recently forced a local restaurant and contractor to pay owed wages to one of their members. They are four for four since getting started a little over a year ago. Here's the announcement from their website.

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Steel City Solidarity is a solidarity network based in Hamilton, Ontario. Local Common Cause members helped found the group and remain active as key organizers and supporters. They recently won two campaigns against companies who had stolen wages from their workers.

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From Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (blog)

On the evening of July 9th, to express solidarity with the hunger strike at Pelican Bay and across California, 30 folks from Southern Ontario gathered in Kitchener for a noise demo at Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI), a federal women’s prison. We marched with banners, chants, and balloons flapping in the winds to an area near GVI where we could see and communicate directly with folks imprisoned, many of whom were in the yard when we arrived.

From http://www.steelcitysolidarity.com:

On June 14th Steel City Solidarity brought together 26 activists to pressure a delinquent landlord and employer to pay outstanding wages and a deposit owed to an individual who approached us.

Steel City Solidarity was approached by Dorian who was owed $100 in back wages as well as an outstanding $225 security deposit that were owed to him by his landlord (who he also worked for). The landlord was acting like a bully, and refusing to pay, so SCS met with Dorian and together we drafted a demand letter – giving the landlord until the end of the week to pay up or we would take further action.

This past Sunday, June 5, the Slutwalk movement came to Hamilton. Over 500 people marched from City Hall, through downtown and to the central police station. The march drew people of all ages and from across the region. The message was loud and clear: stop blaming victims of sexual violence, stop shaming women for asserting their sexuality and sexual freedom.

It was the second time in just over two months that a large angry group of people marched on the central police station. On April 30, about 200 people marched in opposition to police brutality and in support of the Chinnery family whose son was killed by police this past February.

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