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01/05/23
Author: 
Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes.
Workers construct a 260-foot-long ship in Terrebonne Parish, La., April 3, 2023. The ship will serve offshore wind technicians and a warehouse for their tools as they operate and maintain wind farms. Ted Jackson/AP.

Apr. 29, 2023

Huge changes are coming for our workplaces, quick as a heat wave. This month Joe Biden inked new rules to make all-electrics the majority of new cars sold in America within a decade.

To charge all those batteries, many of the largest states are pushing to power their grids with two-thirds clean energy by the same deadline.

These green shifts have put billion-dollar signs in the eyes of bosses. Public cash is pouring out to subsidize cleaner manufacturing and energy. Corporations aim to cash in double by cutting unions out.

01/05/23
Author: 
Emma Paling
Grocery giants are screwing Canadians—and farmers have proof

Apr. 27, 2023

The main cause of rising food prices is the small bloc of powerful companies who control Canada’s food processing and retail industries

The real cause of skyrocketing food prices is corporate greed and market concentration—and one group of farmers has the receipts.

29/04/23
Author: 
Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star
An homeless woman begs for money in the streets of Helsinki by -18°C, on January 20, 2010. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images)

Apr. 29, 2023

It turns out the very best thing to do is give people who don't have a place to live... a place to live.

Determined to pack more homeless people into Toronto’s overcrowded shelters, officials have come up with a solution: reduce the number of inches between beds.

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29/04/23
Author: 
Matteo Cimellaro & John Woodside
Sea ice melts in Frobisher Bay, Iqaluit, Nunavut on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Apr. 28, 2023

Inuit want direct access to a global fund dedicated to addressing destruction caused by climate change, the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Canadian arm says.

29/04/23
Author: 
Zak Vescera
Several major unions and the BC Federation of Labour have criticized the City of Vancouver’s approach. Photo by Jen St. Denis.

Apr.27, 2023

CUPE local that represents workers involved condemn the city’s approach.

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