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- The case for large-scale workers’ media in Canada –Unions, union members, and people with access to wealth need to think big about shifting the media landscape in Canada.
- November/December 2022 –Each year, Briarpatch publishes a special issue on work and the labour movement. In this year's Labour Issue, you'll find stories on the workers fighting wage theft in Brampton; Indigenous labour history; lessons from the Quebec strikers who won anti-scab legislation; farm workers fighting for sustainable agriculture and conditions; tree…
- A reading list on labour’s role in a just transition –A transition to a sustainable economy is a monumental task that will require transformative change. Whether this transition is just, democratic, and reflective of the scale of the crises we face is still to be determined.
- Class inaction –Survivors are speaking up about the abuse they endured in Canada’s government-run institutions for disabled people. Class-action lawsuits promise them justice – but can they deliver?
- Planting trees in a coal mine –Reclaiming mines is touted as an essential part of a just transition. But in Teck’s B.C. coal mines, two tree planters were left asking: were they part of reclamation, or greenwashing?
- “With our own hands” –Workers and international students in Brampton are fighting back against wage theft, naming and shaming employers to recover over $250,000 in stolen wages. 12 workers share the lessons they’ve learned in the fight.
- Indigenous labour struggles –From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.
- How Quebec workers won – and kept – anti-scab laws –If anti-scab legislation is to be extended across Canada, the NDP’s best efforts and the Liberals’ reluctant co-operation might not be enough. The history of the Quebec labour movement can show us how to fight for anti-scab legislation.
- Building farm worker power –Across Canada, farm workers are facing hotter summers and extreme weather, while being denied basic labour protections like a minimum wage. The farm workers organizing within the National Farmers Union want to change agriculture’s unsustainable conditions.
- “We inhabit a land; the land inhabits us” –An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 12th annual Writing In The Margins contest: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Jessica Johns, and Randy Lundy.
- Exiting the revolving door –Sheltered workshops for disabled people allow employers to evade labour standards and pay workers below minimum wage, all under the guise of never-ending “training programs.”
- Keeping justice in a just transition –As the term “just transition” gains traction with policymakers and fossil fuel companies trying to paint themselves green, the articles in this issue remind us that a just transition means justice for workers, migrants, and Indigenous Peoples.
