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• November/December 2023

  In our annual Labour Issue, contributors write about work, unions, and the labour movement. Inside you’ll find an investigation into the subminimum wage workers behind the newest AI technologies; a look inside baristas’ fight to win a collective agreement with coffee giant Starbucks; an article on migrant workers push to…

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• Inflation, bargaining, and worker power

  Workers are fed up with measly wages that don’t pay the rent while their bosses’ profit margins soar.

• The workers AI hides

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

• Dreaming of home care futures

  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.

• Smash the machines

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

• Media by and for workers: a reading list

  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.

• Rockarts, Cole

  Cole Rockarts (they/them) is a labour educator and organizer based on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton, AB. You can find their work here, and follow them on X (formerly known as Twitter) @colerockarts.

• B.C.’s forgotten front-line workers

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

• The battle to bargain with Starbucks

  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.

• How to start a worker-owned restaurant

  The Allium was a community hub with a vision for a more equitable service industry. Now closed, its success offers lessons for future worker-owned co-ops.

• Labour against Big Tech

  As bosses and Big Tech push us to make every second productive, this issue’s articles show that we can take control of working conditions, from status for all, to a just transition, to Big Tech’s reach, if we’re willing to make those demands – and to act for them.

• King, Adam D.K.

  Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in the labour studies program at the University of Manitoba. He writes the weekly labour newsletter Class Struggle at The Maple.

• Sioufi, Véronique

  Véronique Sioufi is a PhD candidate in geography at Simon Fraser University as well as the researcher for racial and socio-economic equity at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-B.C.

• Hande, Mary Jean

  Mary Jean Hande is an assistant professor in sociology at Trent University, where her community-engaged research focuses on aging, disability, immigration, precarious work, continuing care systems, and struggles for social transformation. She is academic lead on the Towards Just Care research project, which is focused on building disability and migrant…