Category: Labour
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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 »
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The Conflicted Transformation of CAW-Unifor: A Review of Shifting Gears
Recent commentaries on the political trajectory of the major private sector union in Canada, CAW-Unifor, have often had a rather simplistic and problematic perspective. That the CAW-Unifor (the latter being … Keep reading »
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The Two Faces of Government ‘Largesse’
Vulgar political partisanship and crass hand-outs to corporate welfare bums. Keep reading »
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CUPW Strike: Standing Up Against Misleading Claims
We felt it necessary to respond to [Canada Post president and CEO] Mr. Ettinger’s misleading “Dear Colleague” letter released this week. Mr. Ettinger is either misinformed or doesn’t fully grasp … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: The Truth About the ’37 Oshawa GM Strike
Author Tony Leah reveals what actually took place at the Oshawa GM plant in 1937 through the voices and actions of rank-and-file workers and shop-floor activists that have been covered up for decades. Watch video »
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Fighting for a Better Deal and a Better University: Obstacles and Possibilities for Workers in Ontario’s Higher Education Sector
I write as a rank-and-file member of CUPE 3903 at York University, Toronto, who works as a teaching assistant. Our recent round of bargaining and strike action has underscored some … Keep reading »
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A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
A large body of scholarship has emerged in recent years attempting to assess if Amazon is a monopoly. Such accounts generally define monopoly in terms of the neoclassical “quantity theory … Keep reading »
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One Year On: Our Call to Workers Everywhere – Stop the Genocide
Palestinian Trade Unions Call for Immediate Action Against the Ongoing Genocide One year ago, Palestinian trade unions made an urgent global call to action, imploring workers across the world to … Keep reading »
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Health and Safety: Amazon Fails to Deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021) At the end of March 2021, a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama, … Keep reading »
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100% Tariffs on China’s EVs: Is this Canada’s “Just Transition”?
The Liberal government recently imposed a 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs). What‘s at stake in this move? Is this simply another attempt to cozy up to America‘s … Watch video »
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To Build Solidarity with Palestine, Labour Movement must look to the past
Dedicated organizers convinced Canadian unions to oppose apartheid. Their work provides critical lessons for activists today. Keep reading »