Category: Labour
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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 »
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Conversion as Strategy: From GM to Workplace Plans
In February 2019, shortly after GM’s announcement that its Oshawa assembly operations would be shut down, Sting was in Toronto. He was performing The Last Ship, his musical about the … Keep reading »
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The Anti-Union Virus Inside the Emergency Powers: Lessons for Workers
While the Covid virus weakens immune systems, it fortifies the anti-union animus of right-wing governments. When it was clear that there was no way the coronavirus was going to exempt … Keep reading »
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Teachers’ Unions and COVID-19: Time to Step Up
It has been crystal clear from the beginning that the COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a medical crisis. The federal government alone is hurrying to send over $100-billion out … Keep reading »
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Re-tool Oshawa GM Complex to Combat Covid-19
Manufacturing worker and healthcare worker representatives call for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford to immediately order the production of essential medical equipment and supplies at the … Watch video »