Category: Labour
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No Labour for Genocide – No Complicity with Apartheid
On the eve of May Day, the General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza calls on workers in the US to translate their solidarity into effective actions that go beyond statements and create real pressure to stop the Gaza genocide. Keep reading »
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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 »
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How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally
When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only … Keep reading »
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Trade War and Attacks on National Sovereignty: How Unions Can Fight Back
The United States has launched a full-scale attack on our economy and our very existence as a sovereign country. Canadians have responded by boycotting US products, buying Canadian, and cancelling … Keep reading »
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Building a Worker-led EV Transition, for People not Profit
The EV transition is currently led by corporations under for-profit and market logic. From shop floor battery fires to factory shutdowns, this transition is creating a constant state of crisis … Watch video »
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The Amazon Strike: Performative or Substantive?
The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing … Keep reading »
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Lock-Outs: The newly embedded right to strike turns out to be a retractable privilege
In Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley wrote: “There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it with cream.” What he left unsaid is that, no matter how you do … Keep reading »
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The Conflicted Transformation of CAW-Unifor: A Review of Shifting Gears
Recent commentaries on the political trajectory of the major private sector union in Canada, CAW-Unifor, have often had a rather simplistic and problematic perspective. That the CAW-Unifor (the latter being … Keep reading »
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The Two Faces of Government ‘Largesse’
Vulgar political partisanship and crass hand-outs to corporate welfare bums. Keep reading »
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CUPW Strike: Standing Up Against Misleading Claims
We felt it necessary to respond to [Canada Post president and CEO] Mr. Ettinger’s misleading “Dear Colleague” letter released this week. Mr. Ettinger is either misinformed or doesn’t fully grasp … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: The Truth About the ’37 Oshawa GM Strike
Author Tony Leah reveals what actually took place at the Oshawa GM plant in 1937 through the voices and actions of rank-and-file workers and shop-floor activists that have been covered up for decades. Watch video »
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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 »