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This year’s International Workers Day (May 1) will have a more serious tone for federal public servants as we watch our public service siblings in the United States suffer the worst attack on workers’ rights in American history. Join us on May 1 to stand in solidarity with those workers, and to say No DOGE in Canada!
If you’re meeting us at the march – look for CAPE flags. If you’d like to walk over with us from the CAPE office, please meet us at 350 Albert, suite 1800, by 4:30 pm.
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is undertaking the biggest assault on the American labour movement in living memory, and his targets are public servants and public services.
Join CAPE and other unions and community members in the National Capital Region for Ottawa’s annual May Day March to celebrate International Workers Day – let’s send a clear message of solidarity to our American siblings and say loudly: No DOGE in Canada!
While our employer’s current approach cannot be directly compared to the vandalism of DOGE, we see worrying flavours of DOGE in the employer’s current policies and the plans of leading politicians. Arbitrary austerity that slashes public sector jobs just to replace them with taxpayer-funded private contractors like Deloitte and McKinsey. A ludicrous and terrifying hype around the ability of artificial intelligence to replace vast sections of the public service. More on the nose, a remote work policy that is just a slightly lighter version of Elon’s. We cannot see the ideology of DOGE repeated in Canada – not even DOGE-lite.
Powerful lobby groups such as Build Canada want to see a DOGE experiment rolled out in Canada. Far right tech oligarchs think that they know how to run a government and deliver public services and programs better than career public servants. We’ve seen how that is working out in the US, and we cannot let it happen here.
Wear your CAPE swag and join us at Confederation Park at 5:00pm on Thursday May 1st to say loudly: No DOGE in Canada!
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Happy International Workers’ Day – see you there!
P.S. The march organizers are still finalizing the route, but the goal is to have the march be as welcoming and accessible as possible to everyone, including kids, families, people with mobility challenges, etc. The march will have marshals who will assist participants and help ensure our collective safety throughout the event.
