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1st May 2004
Dear
friend Fred Muzin,
: President,
B.C. Hospital Employees' Union (HEU)
On
behalf of all the members of the Worker-communist Party of Iran,
I would like to express my total support for your strike.
We regard your struggle as our own and have been
conveying the news of your strike to the workers in Iran through
our publications and via our radio & TV.
We
eagerly await the success of your fight and the retreat of the
B.C. government from its brutal and disgraceful attacks on your
rights and conditions. As
your struggle has shown, to improve our situation or even to
protect it from further deterioration, we workers have no choice
but to unite and fight. The
employers, private and state alike, will use any excuse to
impose worse conditions on us.
Privatization and contracting-out are other words for
cutbacks and redundancies.
This is precisely what is happening in the health care
sector in B.C. Having
frozen pay levels for three years, now they want to impose deep
wage cuts and mass layoffs.
Even more disgraceful is their recourse to legislation to
try and break the strike by making it illegal.
Your magnificent defiance in the face of this anti-labour
legislation and the support by teachers and wide sections of the
labour movement for your just struggle will ensure your success
in driving back this attack by the right-wing Liberal
government.
I
wish you every success in your struggle.
Sincerely,
Kazem
Nik-khah
Secretary
Worker-communist
Party of Iran – Organisation Abroad
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