Category: Labour
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Europe’s Hospitals on Strike: Different Countries, Same Labour Struggle
Germany Against Hospital Spending Cuts In recent years, an increasingly broad and well-networked hospital movement in Germany has dispelled the myth that hospital strikes are impossible. This labour struggle was set … Keep reading »
Chile: Labour Movement Calls for Nationalizing Lithium Company
On April 20, Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced the launch of a National Lithium Strategy and the creation of a National Lithium Company. Under the new Strategy, the Chilean State’s … Keep reading »
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 »
TV Writers Flex Their Union Power
A strike authorization by the Writers Guild of America is threatening the television industry’s corporate business model of relying on an underpaid workforce to pay for its mergers. Keep reading »
Palestinian Trade Unions’ Anti-Apartheid Call
Palestinian trade unions and professional syndicates issue a global call for solidarity with the Palestinian-led Anti-Apartheid Movement. Keep reading »
Canadian Unions and the State: Losing Ground, Moving On
There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it … Keep reading »
Lowest-Paid Workers in LA Schools Walkout: Teachers by Their Side
A massive three-day strike by school support staff and teachers recently shut down Los Angeles schools. They stand together to demand better wages and benefits for the school district’s most vulnerable workers. Keep reading »
Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics
The following is a forward from the new (fourth) edition of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour. Those interested in purchasing a copy can get a 25% … Keep reading »
To Renew Working-Class Resistance, the Labour Movement Must Be Democratized
Charting a course toward labour’s revival requires a socialist political project suited to the current historical and social moment. To build this renewed working-class politics, the labour movement must be democratized. Keep reading »
Starbucks: Poster Child for Corporate Abuse
The billionaire CEO returned to Starbucks to curb union activity. His union busting has been so egregious that the company’s already poor reputation is now in tatters. Keep reading »
How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike
Joe Oliveira and his coworkers relied greatly on donations of food and gift cards after going on an unfair labor practice strike against multibillion-dollar specialty steelmaker ATI in 2021. They … Keep reading »
The NDP and the Right to Strike
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the … Keep reading »