Tag: Labour Movement

Unions in Canada and the U.S. are throwing open the doors to collective bargaining meetings, hoping to win stronger contracts and more engaged members. Will it work?

“Hell’s Hole,” “the Devil’s Row,” and “the Western Front” – these were the nicknames for the coal mines of the Drumheller valley. In 1919, around 6,500 Drumheller coal miners walked off the job after voting to join the radical and militant One Big Union. Nearly a hundred years later, the 1919 Drumheller strike remains one of the most famous examples of workers’ power on the Prairies.

The Fight for $15 in Ontario reminds us that when employers go on the attack or cry wolf about economic crises, workers need not back down.

Artist Dylan Miner has set out to reproduce and digitize the prodigious art of the Industrial Workers of the World.

A disaffiliation that threatens union power in a vulnerable time.

Letters between long-time friends Aina Kagis and Barb Byers on the labour movement past, present, and future.