Labour - Unions

02/10/23
Author: 
Jen St. Denis and Katie Hyslop
A ‘parents’ rights’ rally opposing sexual orientation and gender identity resources in schools is met by a counter-protest on Sept. 20, 2023, in Vancouver. Photo by Jen St. Denis.

Sept. 26, 2023

What it means for BC and Canada. And why it’s important to fight back.

02/10/23
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a deal Thursday that will give fast-food workers a pay bump in 2024. LA Times

2 Oct 2023 

It’s these types of incremental reforms that build the basis from which workers can continue the fight for more.

Back in August 2022, I wrote about a newly passed law in California that would create a sector-wide labour-management council giving fast food workers the right to bargain over wages and standards in their industry. At the time, myself and many others considered the law a significant victory.

01/10/23
Author: 
Lital Khaikin, Canadian Dimension
photo: Members of the front commun march down Park Avenue, Montréal

Sept. 23, 2023

An Inter-Union Alliance Representing 420,000 Workers Is Mounting A Serious Challenge To The CAQ’s Austerity Program.

“I make $30 an hour and am barely scraping by,” said Audrey Perreault, a radiology technologist who marched in downtown Montréal last weekend during a massive demonstration of public sector workers.

27/09/23
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain shakes hands with a union member before marching in the Detroit Labor Day Parade on September 4, 2023., (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)

Sept. 24, 2023

Today the UAW is making headlines for an energetic strike, helmed by new leadership that doesn’t shy away from the language of class war. It’s happening, in large part, because a small group of workers got together four years ago to reform their union

What can we learn from the new militancy in the United Auto Workers (UAW)?

18/09/23
Author: 
Aldyn Chwelos, Kristen de Jager and Paul Voll
‘We shouldn’t be working in this.’ Tree planters say that industry pressures trap them in unsafely polluted settings. Illustration by Nora Kelly.

Sept. 18, 2023

As the job hazard grows across Canada, protections fail to keep up. A Tyee and Climate Disaster Project special report.

Athick grey haze brewed above Alberta’s Slave Lake region in the summer of 2021. Seth Forward thrust his shovel into the earth to carve a home for green-needled seedlings. The heat and swarms of horseflies plagued him. But as Forward planted tree after tree, he was more concerned with the dark sky and acrid smell in the air.

18/09/23
Author: 
Zak Vescera
Current controls only limit increases while the same tenant lives in an apartment. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Sept. 14, 2023

Owners would no longer be allowed unlimited increases if a tenant leaves or is evicted.

10/09/23
Author: 
John Clarke
Book cover

"However, the fundamental issue that must be decided is whether a green socialism is to be attained by incremental modification of capitalism and its state, or the taking of power by the working class. In truth, Rosa Luxemburg’s differences with Eduard Bernstein, on the matter of “Reform or Revolution” and the nature of the capitalist state are still very relevant in the development of an ecosocialist project."

 

Sept.10, 2023  

07/09/23
Author: 
Zak Vescera
Consular officials and non-profits say a huge share of migrant farmworkers live in housing that doesn’t meet the province’s regulations. Photo for The Tyee by Zak Vescera.

Sept. 7, 2023

Inadequate oversight and ALR rules blamed for widespread inadequate housing.

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