Kate Jacobson is a union organiser and the host of the Alberta Advantage podcast.
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MagazineA Marxist reader for disorienting times
A reading list to help leftists face the conditions within which we organize without consolation or despair.
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MagazinePlanes, trains, and workers’ gains
Toronto Pearson Airport is Canada’s largest workplace. There, workers are building up an organization that aims to match the airport’s power.
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MagazineBusted
Aaron Doncaster was fired from his job as a dishwasher at Calgary’s Hilton Garden Inn for organizing a union. But in Alberta, workers have new protection against union-busting bosses.
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MagazineRemembering the 1919 Drumheller strike
“Hell’s Hole,” “the Devil’s Row,” and “the Western Front” – these were the nicknames for the coal mines of the Drumheller valley. In 1919, around 6,500 Drumheller coal miners walked off the job after voting to join the radical and militant One Big Union. Nearly a hundred years later, the 1919 Drumheller strike remains one of the most famous examples of workers’ power on the Prairies.
