Author: Kevin Skerrett

Kevin Skerrett is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University’s Institute of Political Economy and Director of their Financialization Research Lab. He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (2018). He has worked for 30 years as a pension researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Will the CLC Finally Break from its Support for Israel and its Histadrut Federation?

This coming week, the delegates to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) triennial Convention in Winnipeg will have a vital opportunity to establish a new relationship of fulsome solidarity with the … Keep reading »

Labour • May 11, 2026 • Kevin Skerrett
The Dangers of Working-Class Women’s Football: 100 Years After the English FA Ban

For many sports fans in Canada, the most memorable moment of this past summer’s Olympic Games in Japan was the triumph of the Canadian women’s soccer team, a heart-stopping penalty-shootout … Keep reading »

Culture/Media, Feminism • December 5, 2021 • Kevin Skerrett
Pension Fund Capitalism and the Campaign to “Make Revera Public”

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed some of the damage wreaked by neoliberalism to a harsh new light. The erosion of workers’ rights to basic safety and livable wages, the particular … Watch video »

Economy • November 8, 2020 • Kevin Skerrett
Pension Fund Capitalism and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Revera

Of the many crises provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic across Canada, the dire situation in long-term care facilities and retirement housing may be the most widely and urgently recognized. Even … Keep reading »

Economy, Public Goods • September 12, 2020 • Kevin Skerrett
Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism

Kevin Skerrett and Chris Roberts discuss the significance of their edited book, The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism. Heather Whiteside and Janice Folk-Dawson speak to the issues the book raises for the trade union and working class movements today. Recorded in Toronto, 29 March 2018. Watch video »

Economy • April 8, 2018 • Janice Folk-Dawson, Kevin Skerrett, Chris Roberts and Heather Whiteside
Can We Defend Our Pensions Without Challenging Financialized Capitalism?

Unrelenting employer attacks on workplace based pension plans are intensifying, and the struggle to defend them is becoming more challenging right across the country. One recent development appears to be … Keep reading »

Economy, Labour • October 29, 2014 • Kevin Skerrett
Ottawa hotel workers exercise their right to strike – and win

Workers fought hard over many decades to win legal recognition of the right to strike. Most unionized workers now have this right, and most trade unions work hard to defend … Keep reading »

Labour • December 18, 2007 • Kevin Skerrett