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As millions suffer from the pandemic, who’s getting rich?
Who’s making bank off COVID-19, and who’s fighting back? A summary of Resource Movement and Briarpatch’s webinar, “Pandemic Profiteers & the Movements Trying to Stop Them”
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Collective action is essential
From socially-distanced protests to virtual union drives, five vital signs of worker organizing during COVID-19
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Sask Dispatch
State of the unions
Militancy, “negative solidarity,” and fighting to win in Saskatchewan and Canada’s labour movement
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Is Saskatchewan doing enough for workers during COVID-19?
Saskatchewan’s freezing evictions and Trudeau’s promising $2,000 to laid-off workers. But activists are calling for cancelling rent and more protections for workers.
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Sask Dispatch
City’s body rub parlour decision risks worker safety
City council voted to restrict body rub parlours to industrial areas, citing safety as a reason. But some workers say the decision will make their work more dangerous.
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Oshawa could be the engine of a Green New Deal in Canada
Workers want to nationalize the General Motors plant and build electric vehicles for Canada Post
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
CLC throws support behind locked-out Refinery Co-op workers
After Unifor National president Jerry Dias was arrested on the Refinery Co-op picket line, the president of the Canadian Labour Congress flew in to support locked-out Unifor 594 members. It comes almost exactly two years after a bitter split, when Unifor disaffiliated from the CLC.
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Magazine
“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.
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Magazine
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.
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Magazine
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.
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Magazine
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.
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Magazine
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
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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.
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Sask Dispatch
What happened to the Co-op?
The Co-op was founded on principles of equality and solidarity. But now workers and members say management is trying to run it “like a corporation.” How did we get here?
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Labour tensions flare on Sask University campuses
Support workers at the University of Saskatchewan continue to bargain to keep their pensions and increase pay. Meanwhile, a collective agreement was reached in April between the University of Regina and the University of Regina Faculty Association (URFA).
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Sask Dispatch
The Fight for $15 in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there’s hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.
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Magazine
Land and labour
Many people believe that there is an unbridgeable rift between left labour activism and Indigenous struggles. But recent events have made clear that “reconciliation” screeches to a halt as soon as it stands in the way of the accumulation of capital.
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Seeing a strike on the big screen
Sorry To Bother You shows why we need anti-capitalist art that’s both radical and popular.
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Magazine
Should unions say no to closed-door negotiations?
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?