February 2020
Rights Against the Machines
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is leading a drive to unionize Foodora bike and car couriers in Toronto - the first case of these food courier workers to unionize in Canada that is currently before the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Speakers: Marco Marrone, Liisa Schofield, and Iván Ostos.
Find out more »RedNights presents: Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020
Join us for a leap year night of live music and video! With: Lillian Allen The Rise Up Feminist Jazz Band Honey Novick in tribute to Sophie Tucker Songs of Chilean resistance with Ernesto J. Espinoza, Oriana Barbato, & Pablo Gutiérrez Catherine Phillips Kate Kitchen Thirza Cuthand’s "Woman Dress" Complete lists of RedNights events
Find out more »March 2020
Book Launch: Jane McAlevey’s A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
We warmly welcome you to join us for the Toronto book launch of Jane McAlevey's new and widely acclaimed A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (HarperCollins, 2020). Jane McAlevey, the iconic American labour organizer, educator, author, political commentator and strategist, gives a rousing and electrifying call to arms and shows us why we must strengthen and defend the only force capable of fighting back against social injustice and the alarming right-wing shift in our politics: a…
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Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Join us for the Toronto book launch for Barry Eidlin's Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The comprehensive and systematic assessment ever of explanations for US union decline! The most comprehensive and systematic assessment ever of explanations for US union decline! Presentation by and Q&A with author. Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality.…
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