Category: Labour
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CUPW strike in 1981 leads to Maternity Leave
In 1981, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) engaged in a 42-day strike that resulted in significant improvements to maternity leave benefits. The strike led to the establishment of … Watch video »
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The Struggle Continues: CUPW Walking Tour (Mayworks, Toronto)
The walk takes participants by downtown Toronto sites associated with CUPW’s history, from its beginnings to present day. The walking tour passes by important Canadian Union Postal Workers (CUPW) workplaces … Watch video »
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DOGE Already Happened in Chicago: How to Resist Through Coalition Building
On April 14, members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) ratified its new contract with 97 percent approval. The nearly year-long negotiation process was steered by union president Stacy Davis … Keep reading »
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A Left Program for the Future of Labour
Raquel Cardeira Varela obtained her PhD in Political and Institutional History at ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, in 2010. She is a social and labour historian, researcher and Professor at … Watch video »
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Call from Gaza Unions to US Workers: Put Your Solidarity Into Action to Stop the Genocide
To the Free Trade Unions in the United States of America and to every free worker and trade unionist fighting for justice, freedom, and human dignity. We salute you on … Keep reading »
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No Labour for Genocide – No Complicity with Apartheid
On the eve of May Day, the General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza calls on workers in the US to translate their solidarity into effective actions that go beyond statements and create real pressure to stop the Gaza genocide. Keep reading »
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May Day: Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour’s long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago. Keep reading »
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How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally
When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only … Keep reading »
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Trade War and Attacks on National Sovereignty: How Unions Can Fight Back
The United States has launched a full-scale attack on our economy and our very existence as a sovereign country. Canadians have responded by boycotting US products, buying Canadian, and cancelling … Keep reading »
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Building a Worker-led EV Transition, for People not Profit
The EV transition is currently led by corporations under for-profit and market logic. From shop floor battery fires to factory shutdowns, this transition is creating a constant state of crisis … Watch video »
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The Amazon Strike: Performative or Substantive?
The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing … Keep reading »
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Lock-Outs: The newly embedded right to strike turns out to be a retractable privilege
In Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley wrote: “There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it with cream.” What he left unsaid is that, no matter how you do … Keep reading »