Category: Labour
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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 »
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Saving the Detroit Three, Finishing Off the UAW: Learning From the Auto Crisis
At the end of 1979, President Carter offered loan guarantees to Chrysler to prevent the company’s imminent bankruptcy. The loans were conditional on wage concessions of some 10% and the … Keep reading »
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Labour Turmoil and the Fight for Public Education
Over the last three decades, the post-secondary education sector in Canada has been consistently undermined by a crisis of under-funding. Provincial and federal governments have followed neoliberal policies which seek … Keep reading »
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BC Labour Convention Confronts Economic Crisis
The biannual policy convention of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, held in Vancouver from November 24 to 28, reflected a growing anger among unionized workers with corporate attacks and … Keep reading »
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The Neoliberal University: Looking at the York Strike
Placed neatly in the middle of a global economic maelstrom, it is near impossible to understand or predict what, if any, consequences the strike by 3500 odd teaching and research … Keep reading »