Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production (www.wsws.org)

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I never expected to see this in my lifetime.

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[-] dom@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And lets not sell them to ICE.

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

This is the real issue, if I have to read another story like Guardaworld making Alligator Alcatraz I'm going to cut a bitch.

[-] asg101@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

This "union" is beginning to sound more like a fake pig union than a real workers' union. Why not push for life-affirming products like transit vehicles? Absolutely disgusting.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

What a wonderful way to keep people employed, by pivoting from engines destroying the environment and killing people to, well, exactly the same. It's certainly a win for them, and us to continue being paid to make death machines. Their union is smart to want to get a piece of the military budget pie.

Just like the US, let's have common folks earn a living from making military equipment, and depend on those jobs. Great idea. It's not at all contributing to spending public money on the military instead of useless social programs.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

I don't know if you noticed, but we might be urgently needing that military in the near future.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 days ago

My nation has been under occupation by the English since 1760 and I have no special love for the actual country that was forced on us. The patriots tried to fight against the English; they were captured, and hung. One capitalist master over another, I'm not fighting for that.

We survived for 260 years in a country that was stolen and in a union that was forced on us. We will endure the Unitedstaters if they take over, as we endured the English.

Plus, an escalation and more spending on the military is exactly what the orange turd wanted in the first place. You are being played over FUD.

The world will be such a better place when the poor will fight one another for a line on a map while the rich pockets the money from military equipment sale. But at least everyone is employed and has a job!

[-] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Quebec was abandoned by France. That was one of the realities of the Seven Years War.

Even if the Patriots did win, there woiod have been an issue with US invasion and integration.

[-] xploit@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

What's wrong with not allowing machinery to be sold off for peanuts and instead continuing to build cars. Maybe that arrow project that was in some news (all Canadian car), is that not a worthwhile project...oh is it too cheap perhaps???