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• Walchuk, Brad –Brad Walchuk lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and works as a staff representative for CUPE Local 3906, representing roughly 3,000 precariously employed academic workers at McMaster University. He holds an MA in political science from Brock University, where he still occasionally teaches in the department of labour studies.
• Letter from the editor –If the trend toward casualized labour is not vigorously fought by labour activists, we can expect the working conditions of all workers to further deteriorate.
• Trespassers on their own land? –Economic development based on resource extraction and other high- impact activities continues at the expense of traditional Indigenous land-based economies. While military, oil and gas, and uranium industry development in traditional Dene, Cree, and Métis territories offers some wage labour, it displaces traditional labour such as hunting, trapping, fishing, and…
• Interns unite! –If decent, full-time work is getting harder to come by, the same can’t be said for internships, whether unpaid or barely paid. From street protests to online campaigns, the emerging intern activism is one part of the wider effort by fresh actors to reformat labour politics for precarious times.
• Order #1467 –Order #1467
• Disconsolatus –Amita Bhatia, of Vahana Films, is an independent filmmaker. _Briarpatch_ contributor Fathima Cader caught up with Bhatia to talk about _Disconsolatus,_ a full-length science-fiction psychodrama that she wrote and directed.
• A crisis in migrant health –In an era of cutbacks – particularly under austerity reforms like reducing migrant wages to 15 per cent below median regional incomes – a long-simmering migrant health crisis is exploding.
• Women take on the trades –Newfoundland is trying to encourage women to enter the professional trades. It can be a daunting challenge for a field in which women account for only 6.4 per cent of the workforce.
• Sichel, Ben –Ben Sichel is a high-school teacher and member of the Dartmouth local of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
• Stevens, Andrew –Andrew Stevens is the co-host of Rank and File Radio rankandfile.ca on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston and an assistant professor at the University of Regina.
• Prier, Nate –Nate Prier is a student, writer, researcher, and educator living, loving, and working in Toronto. He organizes with migrant justice, labour, and Indigenous solidarity struggles.
• Order #1458 –Order #1458
• Hussan, Syed –Syed Hussan is a Toronto based-activist, executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, and a member of the Migrant Rights Network. You can follow him on Twitter at @hussansk.
• Cohen, Nicole –Nicole Cohen is an assistant professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
• de Peuter, Greig –Greig de Peuter teaches in the department of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
• Cuffe, Sandra –Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist reporting on Indigenous, environmental, and human rights issues in Canada and Central America.
• Conventions of labour –Labour movements were created by the collective dignity and expression of human beings who took risks and action against capital.
• Left behind –In the long term, the fate of CAW-unionized workers is going to depend on their ability to organize unrepresented parts and autoworkers. The wider the wage gap grows between unionized and non-unionized workers, the more concessions CAW autoworkers will have to endure.
• Constructed categories –If labour is imagined outside of wage work and governmental categories, it gives us the tools to further a more collective struggle against the living legacies of dispossession, colonization, and exploitation.
• ‘Right-to-Work’ legislation provides no rights and no work –Will the comprehensive changes to labour legislation that unfold in Saskatchewan be a model for right-wing parties across Canada?