Category: Labour
-
Low-Wage Workers’ Struggles Are About Much More than Wages
When fast-food workers first took the streets in New York City in November 2012 to protest for higher wages and a union, no one could have imagined how successful the … Keep reading »
-
Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Low-Paid and Unwaged Work
Introductions by Carlo Fanelli and John Shields (Ryerson University), co-editors of Alternate Routes. Presentations by: Stephen McBride and Jacob Muirhead (McMaster University): “Challenging the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other … Watch video »
-
Lifting Up Low-Wage Work: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce is Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, CUNY School for Professional Studies; and Professor of Sociology in the CUNY Graduate Centre. … Watch video »
-
Solidarity rally with striking YorkU and UofT workers
CUPE 3902, representing 8000 educational workers at the University of Toronto went on strike on March 2nd, 2015. weareuoft.ca (On March 26, the union members voted to go to arbitration.) … Watch video »
-
Important Strike in Mexico: Farm Workers Paralyze Baja Farms
Thousands of farmworkers in the San Quintín Valley of Baja California, just 185 miles south of the U.S. border, struck some 230 farms, including the twelve largest that dominate production … Keep reading »
-
The Public Value of Public Sector Strikes
The essence of an unjust society is to continually demand and take from those with the least the little that they have to support their lives and life-goals and add … Keep reading »
-
South Africa’s Troubled Alliance and the Road Ahead
An Interview with Karl Cloete The expulsion of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) from COSATU in November 2014 was a watershed moment in the post-apartheid labour … Keep reading »
-
StrikeTown: Why Are Toronto University Workers On Strike?
CUPE 3903 represents contract faculty, teaching assistants (TA) and graduate assistants at York University in Toronto, Canada. In August 2014, their collective agreement expired. Since then, teaching assistants and graduate … Keep reading »
-
Solidarity with CUPE 3902 and 3903
Toronto — 6 March 2015. Solidarity rally was held on the grounds of the University of Toronto with the striking members of CUPE 3902 and support from Canadian Federation of … Watch video »
-
Austerity Strangles Ontario: the TA strikes in Context
Austerity for working people and the accumulation of wealth in the corporate sector was sold as short-term pain for long-term gain. What we got of course was pain now, pain … Keep reading »
-
Green Jobs
Toronto — 22 February 2015. The Newest Challenge for Workers and Unions We cannot develop an ecologically-responsible and just economy without considering the consequences for work and employment. But what is … Watch video »
-
Dining Out in Dinkytown
Remembering the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 If you are in Minneapolis, after a hard day’s night, the place to go for a morning pick-me-up is Al’s Breakfast. Or so I … Keep reading »