Category: Labour
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Toronto City Workers on Strike: Battling Neoliberal Urbanism
On June 22nd, City of Toronto workers walked off the job leaving garbage uncollected, parks and recreation programmes shutdown, daycares shuttered and a range of services critical to city living … Keep reading »
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Renewing Workers’ Struggles in the Crisis: The Windsor Workers’ Action Centre
In 1946, Windsor’s working class was at the epicentre of dramatic changes to Canadian workers’ lives, organizations, and relationships to employers. The settlement of the UAW’s 1945 Ford strike established … Keep reading »
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The Struggle Has Its Own Dynamic
The Professors’ Strike at the Université du Québec à Montréal The seven-week strike of professors at the Université du Québec in Montréal (UQAM) ended on April 24, 2009 in a significant, … Keep reading »
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Unite Union Wins Gains for Vulnerable Workers in New Zealand
The Unite union in New Zealand is the country’s newest, and among its most dynamic, trade unions. It is at the forefront of a revitalization of a section of the … Keep reading »
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Demanding the Impossible: Struggles for the Future of Post-Secondary Education
There is growing acknowledgement emerging from student and faculty associations across Canada that there is a crisis in post-secondary education and a need for real change in the structure of … Keep reading »
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May Day 2009 – No One Is Illegal
Toronto, May 2, 2009 – A 10 Minute Production On April 2nd and 3rd, over 100 temporary and undocumented workers were attacked by armed border guards, dragged in to detention … Watch video »
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Unions and the Crisis: Ways Forward?
This May Day, the day of celebration of the international working class movement, arrives in the midst of an international crisis of capitalism. For the first time since the 1930s, … Keep reading »
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When We Are Led to Believe a Lie
Live Bait & Ammo #128: If you believe the Motley Fool and other “stock advisors” in the business press, 90% of General Motor’s (GM) losses can be attributed to the United … Keep reading »
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Complicit, Complacent or Committed? Proposals to Build Pension Security for All Workers
Last summer, Buzz Hargrove, the soon to be former President of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), insisted – along with General Motors (GM) executives – that pension fears were unwarranted. … Keep reading »
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Martinique General Strike Ends in Victory
Mobilizations, victories in overseas colonies set example for French workers. A 38-day general strike in the Caribbean colony of Martinique ended March 14 with the signing of a protocol between … Keep reading »
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Working Class Fightback: Lessons of the Last Great Depression
Toronto, January 25, 2009 – A 10 Minute Production Bryan Palmer, Labour Historian and AuthorCanada Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Trent University. The financial crisis has certainly brought on … Watch video »
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Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice
As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, another army enters the buildings, quietly and unperceived – the night shift … Keep reading »