Steel workers take protest to Canada’s financial capital

Dozens of locked-out steel workers marched on Toronto’s financial district Monday.


They’re protesting the de-indexing of 9,000 pensioners and the lock-out of employees at the U.S. Steel Canada Hamilton works.
Protestors hit Bay Street demanding that companies like Scotiabank and Brookfield — which have people on U.S. Steel’s board of directors — to start caring for pensioners.
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“We’re in the heart of the financial district asking these guys to have a heart and care about pensioners, and you know their hearts are pretty tight, so we don’t know. But there is only one way you can do that, it’s to bring lots of friends here and say let’s care about the seniors who built the wealth of this country.”
Steel workers from Local 1005 in Hamilton have been locked out for more about three months.