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• Order #8212 –Order #8212
• Striking for the common good –Teachers bargaining for the common good contains the seed of radical change – and I mean “radical” in the same way that Angela Davis uses it, meaning “grasping at the root.”
• The literal – and literary – futures we build –_Briarpatch_ editor Saima Desai talks to two judges of our Writing in the Margins contest about Idle No More and MMIWG, ethical kinship, writing queer sex, and their forthcoming work.
• “At least hookers get wages” –If sex were factored out of the equation, sugaring would look a lot like the precarious gig economy jobs of Uber drivers or bike couriers. And – like in other web-based jobs – sugar babies in Montreal are struggling to develop collective strength with their fellow workers.
• November/December 2019 –Our annual Labour Issue has stories about the risky business of sex work in the gig economy; airport workers organizing in Canada’s biggest workplace; how a Canadian garment company is fleecing women maquila workers in Honduras; the reinstatement of Canada’s prison farms; a planned economy for a just transition; Alberta’s…
• The cost of a T-shirt –In Honduras, women maquila workers are fighting back against the multinational garment companies that they say are endangering their health and safety.
• Milking prison labour –Canada’s prison farms are being reopened. But when prisoners will be paid pennies a day, and the fruits of their labour will likely be exported for profit, there’s little to celebrate.
• Planes, 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.
• Taking sex workers seriously –How have restrictive new laws like America’s FOSTA/SESTA and Canada’s PCEPA impacted sex workers’ labour conditions? Lindsay Blewett reviews _Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance_
• Bringing back the beat –In mainstream media, labour journalism has been replaced by financial reporting and business sections. But journalism students are raising the labour beat from the grave.
• Order #8209 –Order #8209
• Khaleeli, Bee –Bee Khaleeli is a Montreal-based student and writer with extensive experience in sexual violence prevention and support work, particularly in university settings. They are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history and gender studies at McGill.
• Ponting, Samantha –Samantha Ponting is an organizer, writer, and editor living in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam First Nations. She currently works in communications for a public-sector labour union.
• Weber, Barret –Barret Weber is a member of Friends of Medicare and is a union member in CUPE 3911 with Athabasca University.
• Loeppky, John –John Loeppky is a disabled freelance writer currently living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published work with Passage, the Media Co-op, CBC, and FiveThirtyEight.
• Blewett, Lindsay –Lindsay Blewett is a sex worker and a PhD candidate in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University.
• Roach, Anna Bianca –Anna Bianca Roach is a freelance journalist who covers social movements, gender, and labour from a leftist perspective. You can find more about her and her work at www.annabiancaroach.com.
• Alberta’s summer of solidarity –Can Alberta’s labour movement rise to the challenge presented by the new UCP government?
• Order #8192 –Order #8192
• Order #8191 –Order #8191