Category: Labour
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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 »
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Lessons Learned: Assessing the 2009 City of Toronto Strike
When word came that the 39-day strike by CUPE Locals 79 and 416 had come to an end, the immediate question on most members’ minds was “Did we win?” The … Keep reading »
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UAW Rank-and-File Organize to Fight For Union Principles
For decades United Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Detroit Three – GM, Ford and Chrysler – were alleged to be narrowing their goals. Workers were said to be maintaining … Keep reading »
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Museum Workers at War
Precarious Employment and the Public Sector Squeeze The casualization of labour has placed many workers in a position of precariousness forcing them into a state of perpetual insecurity characteristic of the … Keep reading »
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Strike at World’s Largest Nickel Mine
International solidarity organizes against Vale Inco, 2nd largest transnational mining giant in the world In France’s south Pacific colony of New Caledonia, a small delegation of Vale Inco strikers from … Keep reading »
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Ford Canada Concessions: Could it Signal the End of an Era?
While the CAW and Ford enter into another round of concessions bargaining – in the wake of concessions in the UAW – there is an argument to be made that … Keep reading »
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Against Concessions: CAW – UAW Rank and File Solidarity
In the spring of 2008, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union, opened contract talks early to negotiate a concessionary contract in order to give the Detroit Three auto makers (Chrysler, … Keep reading »
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Down in the Vale: Sudbury Steelworkers Strike at Vale Inco
For a valley so used to being torn up, spit out, and poisoned daily, everything is eerily quiet in and around Sudbury, Ontario these days. Beginning June 1st with a … Keep reading »
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Workers of the World Unite!
A New Message for Labour Day 2009? What is the significance of the way not only Keynes but even Marx has been brought back into fashion amidst the global economic crisis? … Keep reading »
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UNITE Union Minimum Wage Campaign in New Zealand: Strengthening the Working Class
One bright star above the gloom of recession in New Zealand is the Unite union’s campaign for a living wage. This campaign takes the form of a Citizen’s Initiated Referendum … Keep reading »
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The Toronto ‘Garbage Strike’ and the Critique of Ideology
After six months of contract negotiations with the City of Toronto, union members of CUPE locals 79 (representing inside workers) and 416 (representing outside workers) went on strike on June … Keep reading »