Tag: Unions

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.

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.

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.

How workers and activists are rebuilding their local economy in the aftermath of one of the world’s most devastating mining tragedies.

How workers on the front lines of Canada’s opioid crisis are coping – and what organized labour can do to support them.

How does the labour movement use the courts to advance the rights of workers?

Building a humane system to organize labour and resources is an enormous task, but it’s possible and urgent.

The world of work has changed and the labour movement has to meet this challenge and move beyond it.

Workers have been winning decreased work hours since the Industrial Revolution, shortening the workday from 12 hours to 10 to 8. Why stop there?

The decks are stacked against young people and the last thing they need is your hate.

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.

Racialized women are at the forefront of labour’s most promising campaign.

In Atlantic Canada, where a succession of corporate-compliant provincial governments have created an environment conducive to scabbing and receptive to the business lobby, workers are bargaining not with employers, but with fear, fragmentation, and poor prospects for a stable future of work.

Universal Basic Income is having a moment in the spotlight, but it’s not a straightforward win for workers.

Critical reflections on life and labour in the home building trades.

Feminism with class.