Essex County Library Board cancels public meeting and cuts off workers’ benefits as strike enters eighth-month mark

As the Essex County Library strike hits the eighth-month mark this week, the Library Board has no real plan to end the strike but to continue to thwart democracy and starve striking workers into submission with their latest mean-spirited salvo of cancelling the workers’ benefits plan, charges CUPE 2974, representing the 57 library workers who have been on strike since June 25, 2016.

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