Category: Labour
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The Class Struggle in Vaughan: The Sears Lockout and USW
In the last week of July 2010, workers of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9537, who have been locked out of their workplace and on the picket-lines for nearly five months, … Keep reading »
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Fighting Austerity? The Public Sector and the Common Front in Quebec
The previous round of negotiations in Quebec between the rightwing provincial Liberal government of Jean Charest and the public sector unions in 2005 was ended abruptly by the adoption of … Keep reading »
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One Day Longer? The Vale-Inco Strike Comes to a Close
On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favour of a contract that ended a bitter strike against … Keep reading »
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Bargaining in an Era of Wage Restraint
Toronto, June 19, 2010. With: Sam Gindin is the Visiting Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University, Toronto and active with the Toronto Workers’ Assembly. Michael Hurley is President … Watch video »
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Massey Workers Fight for Their Rights
Now that the G20 has left town, let’s get down to talking about the reality of maternal health in the City of Toronto. Workers at the Massey Centre for Women … Keep reading »
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Bargaining in an Era of Wage Restraint
With the Great Financial Crisis apparently over, economic and political elites across the developed countries have cynically ignored who caused the crisis and turned, as their solution, to cutting back … Keep reading »
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The Public Sector: Searching for a Focus
As capitalism begins to emerge from the ‘Great Financial Crisis,’ there is good reason for working people to refrain from celebration. Though the roots of the crisis were in the … Keep reading »
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May Day 2010 – Toronto
Toronto, May Day, 2010. April 29: Reunion of the Rank n File band – Labour has travelled a long way since workers were hanged in the Cook County Jail fighting … Watch video »
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Celebrating and Struggling This May Day
The Long, Hard Haul at the Vale Inco Strike The fight of popular and workers’ movements across the world against neoliberal capitalism in the current period is not an easy one. … Keep reading »
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A State of Terror: The Death of Human Rights in the Philippines
“We continue to work because of hope for freedom, and trust in the capacity of the people to unite and change the system of oppression” — Congressman Neri Colmenares of … Keep reading »
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The Fight Against Precarious Work
Ottawa, January 18, 2010. Part 2 View on Vimeo.com website Moderated by Susan Spronk. Presentations by: Dennis Howlett – Make Poverty History Denise Corbett – PSAC Local 70396 Civilization/War Museum … Watch video »
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Cadillac Fairview: Where was the Labour Movement?
On March 5, 2010, after a conflict that stretched over almost 9 months, the maintenance and skilled trades workers of CEP (Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada) Local 2003 … Keep reading »