Labour - Unions

16/01/25
Author: 
Peter Boyle
Climate Change is a Class Issue - book cover

Nov. 29, 2024 

Climate Change is a Class Issue
By Sarah Glynn and John Clarke
2024
68pp, RRP $25.95
Free e-book available from climateandclass.net

This small book has already earned big praise from British socialist filmmaker Ken Loach, who described it as “vital”.

15/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization. 

02/01/25
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Suncor president and CEO Rich Kruger before testifying at the Standing Committee on Natural Resources in October 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 2, 2025

Canada’s 100 richest CEOs made 210 times more than the average worker in 2023, a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reveals.

By 10:54 a.m. Thursday, the first official work day of the New Year, these CEOs will have already made, on average, $62,661 — as much as the average worker makes in a whole year.

20/12/24
Author: 
Emiko Newman, Kai Nagata, Tracey Saxby and Melissa Lem
What would you include in a mandate letter about tackling climate change? Members of the BC Climate Emergency Campaign penned one to cabinet ministers in the voice of David Eby. Photo for the Tyee by Christopher Cheung.

Dec. 20. 2024

For cabinet ministers facing a confluence of crises, a mock letter from the frontlines of the climate emergency.

18/12/24
Author: 
Steven Tufts
Canada Post logo

Dec. 18, 2024 [The Globe and Mail (Ottawa/Quebec Edition)]

[The author mentions CUPW’s proposed vision for Canada Post, without naming it. Here it is: https://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/]

17/12/24
Author: 
David Macdonald

Dec. 16, 2024

I have no idea what this fiscal update even means given the chaos that preceded it. 

14/12/24
Author: 
UNITE HERE Local 40

Dear Allies

Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport workers are waging Canada’s longest hotel strike, surpassing 1,300 days on the picket line. Their fight began when the hotel terminated 143 long-term workers, mostly women, after decades of service despite making $33M from the federal government when the hotel was used as a temporary quarantine site.

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