Category: Labour
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In Spain, Amazon Workers Win with Quick-Hit Walkouts
At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for … Keep reading »
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Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, Common Notions, 2025, a new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labour … Watch video »
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Booklaunch: Organizing Amazon
Amazon workers in Coventry, England have won breakthrough wage gains through years of strikes and organizing at the global giant. Now, a new book documents these achievements, and the militant, … Watch video »
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Organizing Amazon: An Interview with Amazon Worker Solidarity
Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity (AWS) group in Toronto. Amazon Worker Solidarity is an independent grassroots organization of trade unionists, community activists, … Keep reading »
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The Promise That Canada Broke
It’s been a month since Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled the caregiver permanent residency program, at least for 2026. He did it on December 19th – the Friday before Christmas, … Keep reading »
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#Insorgiamo: A Factory Occupation for the Climate
Over the last two years, Italian autoworkers have built a broad and inspiring alliance for ecological transformation. Keep reading »
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The WSIB “Surplus”: A Political Slush Fund
The corporate lobby is misleading the public when it suggests that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario is over-funded and that the money should be “returned” to … Keep reading »
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The Crisis at Canada Post
With its recent announcement to ‘modernize’ Canada Post, the Mark Carney government has, for all intents and purposes, dusted off the Harper-era “Five Point Action Plan” aimed at gutting the … Keep reading »
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France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point the Way for Europe
Before it ends up being repressed, the wind of revolt sweeping through the squares of France must be transformed into a comprehensive, alternative economic policy project. Keep reading »
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Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside
In his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the “Fable of the Beaver” to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised … Keep reading »
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Unifor and UE Pass Resolutions for an Arms Embargo and Support for Palestinian Workers
The ground is shifting in global popular opinion against Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza. But western states, notably the US, Britain and Canada, remain complicit in arming and assisting … Keep reading »
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The Return of the Wildcat Strike?
In a Canadian tradition as old as maple syrup, governments of all stripes have long leveraged the law to curb strikes, turning what were once exceptional interventions into routine practice. … Keep reading »