Category: Labour
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Challenges and Openings for the Free Transit Movement in Toronto
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, with a population of 2.7 million (and over 6 million in the Greater Toronto Area). Its public transit system is the third largest in North … Keep reading »
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The European Automotive Sector – Time to Rethink Mobility!
Every sector of the economy has felt the impact of the coronavirus crisis, and car manufacturing is no exception. There are 12 million EU workers employed in the automotive industry, … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 and Patriarchy in the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
In an effort to shed light on the vital but undervalued labour of predominantly female health professionals, the World Health Organization named 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and … Keep reading »
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Health Workers: From Praise to Protection
Crises sometimes bring out the best in society, and sometimes – or even at the same time – they clarify what is so darkly wrong within. In the particular case … Keep reading »
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Green Jobs Oshawa Virtual Press Conference
Green Jobs Oshawa held an online Press Conference and Public Forum to highlight the desperate need for more PPE for our front line workers, especially N95 masks. We are calling on our governments to use their emergency powers to ramp up domestic production, starting with the obvious location of GM’s largely empty Oshawa facility. Watch video »
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A New Lucas Plan for Post-Pandemic Socially Useful Jobs?
Online forum on how worker-led industrial conversion can deal with the coronavirus pandemic as a model for the future. Watch video »
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Cabin Fever: Hope on the Edge of Despair at YYZ
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman infamously defended globalization with the comment, “No, most of our political elite has not realised that the world is flat.” His beloved neoliberal globalization … Keep reading »
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Producing Medical Equipment for Social Need
Expand Production to Include N95 Masks at GM Oshawa On April 24, the Canadian government announced a letter of intent to convert a portion of the GM Oshawa complex for the … Keep reading »
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Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, the US Steps in to Keep Border Factories Open
In Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump is trying his best to reopen closed meatpacking plants, as packinghouse workers catch the COVID-19 virus and die. In Tijuana, Mexico, where workers are … Keep reading »
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Will the Pandemic Set Women Back?
By sapping demand for garments and other goods produced in export-oriented developing and emerging economies, the COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to women workers and progress toward greater gender … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 and ‘Actually Existing’ Unions
The shut-down of non-essential work in response to COVID-19 has decimated labour markets. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 20.5 million more workers lost their jobs in April, … Keep reading »
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The Coming Precarity: Employment in Canada after the Crisis
The immediate impact of Covid-19 on the national employment landscape has been nothing short of catastrophic, with Canada suffering unprecedented job losses over the early months of the crisis. More … Keep reading »