Category: Labour
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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 »
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The Tekel Strike in Turkey
The strike of Turkish workers across the winter of 2009-10 at Tekel, a former state enterprise in the tobacco and alcoholic beverage sector, has attracted the attention of the left … Keep reading »
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Rally for Striking Steelworkers
Toronto, March 6, 2010. Rally for Steelworker Locals 6500 and 6200 on strike at Vale Inco in Sudbury, Port Colborne and Voisey’s Bay. Three years ago, Vale – a giant … Watch video »
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Post-Strike Musings: Assessing the Outcome of the Museum Workers’ Struggle
On December 15th, after a strike lasting 86-days, PSAC workers voted to accept the tentative agreement reached between Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 70396’s bargaining unit and the … Keep reading »
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Pro-sports, Anti-Olympics: Reclaiming the games, From the Games
One of the first photographs I ever posed for was of my dad and me skating on our frozen backyard in Winnipeg. I wasn’t even a year old but I … Keep reading »
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Olympic Flame Parades Through Ravaged Northern British Columbia
February 2, 2010 — The Vancouver Winter Olympic torch relay is winding its way across northern British Columbia this week. It arrived in the coastal town of Kitimat yesterday. The … Keep reading »