Category: Labour
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Cheap Labour, Cheap Lives
Contextualizing Farm Worker Deaths in South Africa and Canada There is a passage from Olive Schreiner’s 1883 novel The Story of An African Farm where she describes the isolated existence of … Keep reading »
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Ed Miliband At the Miners’ Gala
A Red Dawn Over Durham? Although their histories are quite different, the British Labour Party and the U.S. Democrats have one thing in common: both like to avoid too much public … Keep reading »
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Cuba’s Coming Co-operative Economy?
Reflections From Two Recent Field Trips In 2011, I made two trips to Cuba to study the new co-operatives. In June I was kindly invited by Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, a professor … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
Toronto — 17 June 2012. Co-editors Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage launched their new book, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, in Toronto. The book includes contributions from Donald … Watch video »
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The Jackson Plan: A Struggle for Self-Determination, Participatory Democracy, and Economic Justice
A major progressive initiative is underway in Jackson, Mississippi. This initiative demonstrates tremendous promise and potential in making a major contribution toward improving the overall quality of life of the … Keep reading »
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Soccer, Imperialism, and Resistance in Honduras
Never let them tell you it’s ‘just a game.’ Much is on the line, as the Canadian and Honduran national soccer teams prepare for their World Cup Qualifying match on … Keep reading »
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The Bipartisan Assault on Higher Education
Barack Obama and Republican Party Presidential nominee Mitt Romney agree that the Stafford loan program should be maintained at a 3.4 per cent interest rate, rather than being allowed to … Keep reading »
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Workers at CP Get Railroaded
On May 23, 4800 CP Rail workers went on strike after giving a 72-hour strike notice on May 19. The workers, represented by the Teamsters Rail Conference of Canada, had … Keep reading »
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May Day 2012: Why They Are Waging War On the Workers and What To Do About It
Remember the days when bargaining was a backroom affair, or have heard about those days? When union members would only know that contract negotiations were going on when their bargaining … Keep reading »
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Can Labour Precipitate a ‘Useful Crisis’ at Air Canada?
Shortly after being appointed Ontario’s Minister of Training and Education by Mike Harris in the mid 1990s, John Snobelen stated that it was necessary to create a ‘useful crisis’ in … Keep reading »
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Renewing Working Class Politics, Rebuilding Canadian Labour
Toronto — 23 March 2012. View on www.slideshare.net Mark P. Thomas and Steve Tufts, York University: “Uneven Worker Power and the Populism-Austerity-Labour Nexus” Herman Rosenfeld teaches Labour Studies at McMaster … Watch video »
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The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation
What did we lose? What can we learn? Along with everything else, the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath created new openings and potentials for working people in the struggle against … Keep reading »