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    The workers AI hides

    Behind the newest AI technologies are hundreds of Canadians labouring for a fraction of minimum wage.

    by Véronique Sioufi – 13 min read

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    Migrant workers’ fight to unionize in the Yukon

    by Paige Galette – 7 min read

    Fed up with poor working and living conditions, migrant workers are organizing. The Yukon’s labour movement needs to step up and support them.

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    The battle to bargain with Starbucks

    by Adam D.K. King – 13 min read

    Of the hundreds of unionized Starbucks locations in Canada and the U.S., only two have negotiated a collective agreement. Baristas fight against the coffee giant is just beginning.

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    Dreaming of home care futures

    by Megan Linton, Mary Jean Hande, and Ethel Tungohan – 11 min read

    Without a public home-care system, disabled people are forced to choose between living in a long-term care home, medical assistance in dying, and hiring an underpaid migrant home-care worker.

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    B.C.’s forgotten front-line workers

    by Phoebe Fuller – 11 min read

    Food service workers struggle under weak protections from extreme weather. B.C. labour advocates are fighting to change that.

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    Smash the machines

    by Paris Marx – 5 min read

    As Big Tech unleashes new technologies increasing worker surveillance and eroding working conditions, workers can learn from the Luddites’ example.

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    Media by and for workers: a reading list

    by Cole Rockarts – 5 min read

    Not only do labour-focused publications RankandFile.ca and Labor Notes report on workers’ struggles – they help workers build a stronger labour movement. Here are a few articles for workers looking to organize more strategically.

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November/December 2023

The subminimum wage workers behind the newest AI technologies. Plus, baristas' fight to win a collective agreement with coffee giant Starbucks; migrant workers' push to unionize in the Yukon; disabled care receivers and migrant care givers dream of a just home care future; and more. 

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