Category: Labour
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Why Workers Are Up in Arms Over the Rail Strike Intervention
The rail industry can thank US Congress and the president for helping it secure $321-million in annual profits at the expense of workers. Keep reading »
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Delivery Workers’ Union Takes on Amazon Japan
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japan’s practices that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery volume and speed. They are now organising unions to … Keep reading »
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University of California Comes to a Standstill as Academic Workers Strike
A militant labor strike by workers at ten UC campuses comes after the state university system failed to offer compensation commensurate to the cost of living in California. Keep reading »
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Building a Labour Movement to Take on the Billionaire Class
Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement in the US (although it is still applicable to Canada). The … Keep reading »
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The Wages of Our Discontent
It’s clear that, if things continue along the current path, inflation for this year (8%), will be too big to be compensated by unions bargaining for higher wages. Keep reading »
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Organizing Under and Against Apartheid: The New Unions in Palestine
The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions (the New Unions) started as a small union organizing workers in the agricultural sector, known as the Union of Workers Associations in the … Keep reading »
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Ford, CUPE, Class Struggle and the Charter: A Primer
Why do workers strike? In Canada, our fundamental political economic premise is that, if all individuals decide for themselves how to deploy their resources and talents, the best use will … Keep reading »
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Doug Ford’s Attack on Workers is a Canadian Tradition Taken to New Extremes
It’s called the Keeping Students in Class Act. The title of the bill, which passed Ontario’s legislature Thursday, is a weak attempt to make it seem like Premier Doug Ford … Keep reading »
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In Support of CUPE Education Workers
Over the past several decades, governments in Canada have intervened in labour disputes on behalf of employers with increasing frequency. In recent years postal workers, teaching assistants, college instructors, pilots, … Keep reading »
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Ontario Government Greets Education Workers with an Iron Fist: More Public Sector Austerity, Even Less Democracy for Workers
Not content simply to suppress the wages of public workers across the province, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative (OPC) government of Doug Ford has fired a fresh barrage in its ongoing war: … Keep reading »
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System Change, Class War, and the WW2 Economic Conversion Experience
The climate crisis has driven our planet into uncharted territory. We are close to breaching critical environmental thresholds, setting in motion destabilizing changes to our global climate system that could … Keep reading »
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‘To Liberate Ourselves, We Must Reinvent Work’: Class Struggle, Workplaces, and the State
Mike Yates is a long-time Marxist and socialist writer and analyst, one of the editors of Monthly Review. Over the years he has written extensively about capitalism, with particular emphasis … Keep reading »