Author: Bob Farkas

Bob Farkas is a teacher, union member, and activist living in Toronto, Canada, with a longstanding interest in pension issues.

Kinder-Morgan Fiasco: The Cat Is Out of the Bag at the CPPIB

In the weeks and months ahead, there will be many political casualties of the Liberal government’s crisis surrounding the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The first of these, however, … Keep reading »

Labour, Public Goods • May 30, 2018 • Bob Farkas
The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism

Pension-fund activism is a dead-end. Organizing and empowering workers is still the only way to revive the labour movement. Review of David Webber’s The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. Keep reading »

Labour • April 19, 2018 • Bob Farkas