2009-04-29
20:11:16
Local longshoremen are being honoured for their help in getting eleven trade unionists released from prison in Argentina thirty years ago.
The waterfront union refused to load a cargo of heavy water worth 120-million dollars bound Argentina’s first nuclear reactor on July 3rd, 1979.
The event has been described as the “the single most dramatic example of Canadian trade union solidarity with workers in the third world.”
The Longshoremen’s union will be presented with the Order of the Liberator San Martin which is Argentina’s highest honour for citizens of other countries in the near future.
