Category: Labour
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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 »
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Book Launch: Shifting Gears – Canadian Autoworkers
Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics Authors Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage in conversation with Luke Savage. In the decades following the Second World War, … Watch video »
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How Our Struggles Are Contained by Those In Power
This is a period when ongoing social action and indefinite strikes will be needed to turn back attacks and win our demands. Keep reading »
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Sharifeh Mohammadi: Iranian Labour, Civil Rights Activist, Sentenced To Death
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labour and civil rights activist, was put on trial by the first branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court and sentenced to death without going through any transparent … Keep reading »
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Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism
This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek’s new book Law At Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, Between the Lines, 2024. For thousands of years, workers … Keep reading »
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The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes
The symbiotic relationship between universities and the military puts higher education workers in a position of significant structural power. Keep reading »
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A Generational Challenge: Taming Amazon, Renewing Labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced. In the US, the energy was channeled into Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for the … Keep reading »