Adam King, an assistant professor in the labour studies department at the University of Manitoba, said online discourse doesn’t tell the whole story.

“It takes very little effort to post a comment on a story, but it takes much more to show up to a picket line,” he said.

On the picket lines King has seen in Winnipeg, “CUPW has received lots of support,” he said, from the labour movement and the public.

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