Category: Labour
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Not Completely a Company Town
Peter Findlay’s documentary film Company Town provides a welcome opening to initiate discussion and debate about the closure of General Motor’s once massive (it had 23,000 workers at one time) … Keep reading »
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United Front or Bust
People lie. People cheat. People steal. Some get punished. Some wind up taking the punishment for someone else. That’s the way of this wicked world. But a wise man once … Keep reading »
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What Happened to PPE Production in Canada?
Joint Statement on Domestic Production of N95 Respirators On August 21 the federal and Ontario governments announced major subsidies for 3M Canada to expand its Brockville plant, and starting in early … Keep reading »
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Transit Workers Are Still Dying – With No End in Sight
Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit. Keep reading »
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Trade Unions Need New Strategies
With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed. Keep reading »
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Canadian Auto Workers Fight for Contract Transparency
As bargaining at the Detroit Three automakers kicks off in Canada, union members are fighting back against a longstanding undemocratic contract ratification process. In an unprecedented development, the Solidarity Movement, … Keep reading »
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Political Openings: Class Struggle During and After the Pandemic
For some on the left, the economic breakthrough brought on by the pandemic was the general consensus, not least among economists, for an astonishing increase in fiscal spending. Relative to … Keep reading »
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The GM Lands: Renaissance or Ongoing Catastrophe?
Since 2010, the site of the former GM components plant on Ontario Street in St. Catharines has sat idle. The facility that once employed thousands was sold in 2014 to … Keep reading »
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Online Education and the Struggle over Disposable Time
During COVID-19 times, the ‘social distancing’ catchphrase has invaded every aspect of our lives. Public space has been fragmented into individualized, quarantined units, transforming social relations into aggregates of their … Keep reading »
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Shocking but Not Surprising: COVID and Class
A recent Toronto Star article, by Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Jennifer Yang, “More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19,” and reproduced below, reveals a large COVID outbreak at … Keep reading »
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From Unorganized Street Protests to Organizing Unions
The Birth of a New Trade Union Movement in Hong Kong For several months in 2019, the world’s news media was front-paging the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement almost on a … Keep reading »
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Crunch Time for the Platform Management Model
In what may come to be viewed as a historic court case, a group of UK Uber drivers from London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have launched a legal action against … Keep reading »