Tag: LabourDay
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What you Need to Know About May Day
For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? Keep reading »
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Will the Ontario Labour Movement Return to Class Struggle as Austerity Deepens?
The Ontario labour movement is in deep crisis. Some impressive struggles aside, it has been staggering since the end of the great mobilizations of the 1990s. Days of Action was the dramatic class response that emerged in the mid-90s to the radical neoliberal policies and a reminder of the radical potentials of rank and file workers. Keep reading »
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Labour Day: Signs of Renewal?
Labour Day Weekend is upon us, and many union activists and their families will be out marching and picnicking, joining with brothers and sisters from other unions in a show … Keep reading »
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Bargaining Over Corporate Investment: Innovation or Trap?
Ever since the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the cycle of ‘Big Three’ auto bargaining has been a major economic and political event, an indicator of the progress of the … Keep reading »
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Working Class Politics After the NDP
Introduction: Crisis in Labour Politics The issue that we can’t ignore this Labour Day is the disorientation in our movement’s politics. List the issues working people are most concerned about today … Keep reading »
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Labour Day 2010: Austerity, Public Services and the Labour Movement
This Labour Day, like the last two, is dominated by the ongoing global economic crisis. Since 2008 Canada’s workers, working families, and the communities in which we make our lives, … 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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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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Labour Day 2008 and Canadian Workers
Labour Day 2008 in Canada sees a number of longer term trends over this period of neoliberalism intensifying – downward pressures on real wages, growing precarious and marginal work, undermining … Keep reading »
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Reviving the Labour Movement Through Reviving Class Solidarity
LABOUR DAY SEPTEMBER 2007 As Canada and Ontario’s labour movement marches in this year’s Labour Day Parade it does so with something to celebrate: an increase in the provincial minimum wage. … Keep reading »