Saturday 21 March 2015
Third Blogger
Third BloggerThe Winnipeg General Strike is Canada's best known general strike that happened on May 15-25, June 1919. There was massive unemployment and inflation. In Winnipeg on May 15, 1919, and when negotiations broke down between management and labor in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg trades and Labor council called a general strike. At stake were the principle of collective bargaining, and better wages and working conditions. Within hours almost 30,000 workers left their jobs. The strike left a legacy of bitterness and controversy among organized labor groups across Canada
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This demonstrates some research (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg-general-strike/) which is nice, but you need to make sure that you put it all in your own words and answer the question asked for the week. You didn't really address what it shows about Canada's identity because it isn't addressed in the article you read.
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