Worker Direct Action Grows In Wake of Financial Meltdown: Sit-Down in Canada

Labor-management relations have taken a dramatic turn in an era in which unions are too weak or timid to take action even as joblessness grows and companies losing financing are forced into bankruptcy by their creditors. As plants close and layoffs mount-- and as workers recognize they can no longer interrupt the workflow with a strike when there is no flow to be interrupted-- workers are engaging in militant action to save their jobs and livelihoods.