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Remembering the 1919 Drumheller strike
“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.
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We Won’t Back Down
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.
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The Wobbly Print Project
Artist Dylan Miner has set out to reproduce and digitize the prodigious art of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Making Sense of the Unifor–CLC Split
A disaffiliation that threatens union power in a vulnerable time.
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Showing Up for Faculty
It was the faculty’s first strike since 1989. Predictably, the administration tried to pit the students against the faculty, but the deep relationships between students and faculty flipped the power dynamic.
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Working With Your Hands
The only way to survive is to make a living wage and I can’t do that unless I sell my hands, my back, and my brain as a skilled labourer.
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The Second Crisis
How workers on the front lines of Canada’s opioid crisis are coping – and what organized labour can do to support them.
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Science After Harper
Funding for basic research is declining, leaving scientists unable to work effectively. While researchers are spending more time applying for scarce and competitive grants, scientific labour is placed on hold.
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Policing Black Lives: The Colour Line
The history of segregated labour in Canada’s Jim-Crow era
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Unions in Court
How does the labour movement use the courts to advance the rights of workers?
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Unions Can Be Of Our Making
Building a humane system to organize labour and resources is an enormous task, but it’s possible and urgent.
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Moving Past Precarity
The world of work has changed and the labour movement has to meet this challenge and move beyond it.
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Working for the Weekend
Workers have been winning decreased work hours since the Industrial Revolution, shortening the workday from 12 hours to 10 to 8. Why stop there?
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The Midinette Spring
Industrial Montreal was a hotbed of cheap, easily exploited women’s labour. “You’ll never organize girls,” labour leaders were warned. But Rose Pesotta was determined to try “a woman’s approach” to unionizing.
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The Herd at the Pen
When Stephen Harper’s government shuttered prison farms across the country without a coherent explanation, some saw an opportunity to transform them into animal sanctuaries.
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Inside Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy
How are workers in the oil and gas industry affected by Saskaboom’s bust?
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Mexico’s Education Standoff
When Mexican teachers went on strike to protest President Enrique Peña Nieto’s neoliberal education reforms, the state, backed by major financial institutions, cracked down in a bloody attempt at democratic suppression. What does the teachers’ fight signal for the future of public education?
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The Kids Are All Right, But They Need Your Help
The decks are stacked against young people and the last thing they need is your hate.
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Marx Was Right
Marx predicted that capitalists will always try to push down wages and undercut working conditions. He was right, and the working class can push back if it builds power broadly and intersectionally.
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Everything Goes Up But Pay
Racialized women are at the forefront of labour’s most promising campaign.