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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…
• Fuller, Phoebe –Phoebe Fuller (she/her) is a journalist and master’s student at the University of British Columbia. Her writing focuses on labour issues, 2SLGBTQ+ identity, and pop culture, and has appeared in Xtra Magazine, PressProgress, and the Georgia Straight, among others.
• Tungohan, Ethel –Ethel Tungohan holds a Canada Research Chair in Canadian migration policy, impacts, and activism and an associate professor of politics at York University. She is the author of Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care, which was released in August 2023.