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A message to nurses: it’s time to organize
Governments are selling off the health-care system to the private sector, compromising patient care and nurses’ working conditions. If nurses organize, we can stop the sell-off.
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“We will be back”
Four years after the historic Hong Kong protests, organizers reflect on how to grow the labour movement under China’s increasing political repression.
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The struggle lies beyond the bargaining table
Losing an election or settling for a subpar collective agreement can feel like devastating losses in leftists’ larger struggle for power. As we continue to organize for better working and living conditions, the articles in this issue remind us that the struggle isn’t won at the polls or at the bargaining table, but on the picket line, on doorsteps, and in conversations with our communities.
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Indigenous labour struggles
From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.
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How Quebec workers won – and kept – anti-scab laws
If anti-scab legislation is to be extended across Canada, the NDP’s best efforts and the Liberals’ reluctant co-operation might not be enough. The history of the Quebec labour movement can show us how to fight for anti-scab legislation.
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Raising the floor
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of CUPW’s 1981 strike, which won postal workers paid maternity leave, and raised the floor for maternal benefits throughout Canada.
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The strike-breakers’ playbook
For over 30 years, Canadian employers have turned to a private security firm called AFIMAC to help surveil picket lines, provide scab labour, and break strikes.
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Uncontainable
How do we build a transformative mass movement against pandemic-era injustice?
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The implicit militancy of gardening
After two months on strike, CUPE 3903 members were feeling worn out. That changed when, one night – armed with a Rototiller, under cover of darkness – they decided to plant a community garden on the picket line.
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Striking for the common good
Teachers bargaining for the common good contains the seed of radical change – and I mean “radical” in the same way that Angela Davis uses it, meaning “grasping at the root.”
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Student climate strikes are structure tests
In the preparation for a global general climate strike on September 20 – that’s centred around a tactic that came directly out of the labour movement – where are the unions?
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Not just a pretty Instagram profile
In April, nearly 200,000 high-school and middle-school students across Ontario participated in the largest student walkout in Canadian history in protest of Doug Ford’s cuts to education. Reporters and older activists alike are asking: how did high schoolers pull it off?
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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
A letter to the editor (albeit in rhyme)
One hundred and thirty-one days is a very long time – the members are for you every step of the way. We believe in the Co-op, and what you say: with equal work comes equal pay.
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Student strike!
On March 15, Regina students gathered in front of the Saskatchewan legislature building as part of a global youth action to push for concrete measures to be taken to address climate change.
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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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Quebec interns want wages, and they want them now
The student strike is alive and well in Quebec. This week, tens of thousands of Quebec students will walk out of their classes, demanding wages for all interns.
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Sask Dispatch
Saskatoon Co-op strike continues
Workers on strike at Co-op locations in and around Saskatoon have been braving sub-zero temperatures and snow on the picket lines.
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Strike surveillance
During the York University strike of 2018, workers on the picket line found themselves being watched
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Where is the unions’ inspiration in the fight against Doug Ford?
Unions are some of the only progressive organizations with the power to bring production to a halt and to stop the flow of goods and services – and they need to use their power to fight Ford.