Category: Labour
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Learning Some Lessons from Michigan’s Auto Jobs Crisis
The evidence of manufacturing job loss on a massive scale in Ontario where the Canadian auto industry is concentrated is clear and undeniable. Nonetheless a question must be asked. Is … Keep reading »
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Putting the Movement Back in Labour
Left Forum at the CLC Convention (27 May 2008): Crisis and Challenges for Workers’ Struggles and Organizations A discussion of the current crises we face in the labour movement and how … Watch video »
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The CAW and Panic Bargaining: Early Opening at the Big Three
In the face of a deteriorating economic climate and concerns about the ‘investment competitiveness’ of Canadian plants, the CAW leadership made a startling move this spring. It had an air … Keep reading »
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What Emergency? An Assessment of Toronto’s 2008 Transit Strike
Last weekend’s two-day transit strike in Toronto raises anew and in starker terms two issues of longstanding concern to the labour movement in this city and throughout the province. First, … Keep reading »
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Socialist Project Labour Movement Platform
As workers, we are today confronted with the challenge of defending what we have and making gains in the face of an ever-expanding and relentless employer offensive. The employers’ drive … Keep reading »
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Justice for Migrant Workers: Why We Will March
Global migration has been increasing rapidly over the last decades within and between states. A disquieting aspect of this has been the growth of migrant workers who are non-citizens and … Keep reading »
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Statement and Call for the Elimination of Two-Tier Workplaces
On Saturday, January 26, 2008, over 80 U.S. and Canadian auto industry worker/activists met in Flint, Michigan, birthplace of militant unionism in the Auto Industry in the late 1930s. The … Keep reading »
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Two-tier Wages, Second-Class Workers
When Autoworker President Buzz Hargrove makes new pronouncements, they carry weight within and beyond the labour movement – even when, as has recently been the case, they seem to undermine … Keep reading »
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Canadian Workers in Support of Bolivia and Morales
In recent months, the process of democratic renewal and indigenous liberation in Bolivia, headed by president Evo Morales, has come under violent assault from rightist forces aligned with the U.S. … Keep reading »
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Ottawa hotel workers exercise their right to strike – and win
Workers fought hard over many decades to win legal recognition of the right to strike. Most unionized workers now have this right, and most trade unions work hard to defend … Keep reading »
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The UAW-Big Three Settlements: From Defeat to Rebellion
The 2007 United Autoworkers (UAW) agreements with the Detroit Big Three represented – as many people inside and outside the union have noted – the greatest economic concessions in the … Keep reading »
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First FFA Collective Agreement Restricts Workers Democratic rights
On November 5, 2007 the CAW and Magna International signed their first Collective Agreement under the terms of the Framework of Fairness Agreement (FFA). Most of the anti-democratic features of … Keep reading »