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Randcuffed?
The Canadian labour movement’s growing vulnerability to attacks on its legal framework may well present an opportunity for labour to reconstitute itself as a force to be reckoned with. Keep reading…
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As The Weather Turns
It’s clear: going into Tory-held ridings is the only way to build capacity to take out the Ford government in the next election. We need to talk to people who disagree with us, and we need to work in solidarity with those who are already on our side. Keep reading…
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An Idea to Change Our World
For the last decade, environmentalists and unions have been on the defensive. Now it’s time to launch an offensive to collectively determine our future. We have a roadmap to get there. Let’s use it. Keep reading…
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Everything Is Made Somewhere
General Motors and the Shifting Politics of Plant Closings
If history teaches us anything, it is that nothing will change unless working people mobilize against plant closings. It is a political issue and should be treated as such. Keep reading…
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Be Bold, Be Brave
Trans Workers on Building an Inclusive Labour Movement
During bargaining, Sebastien Trujillo and his fellow union reps were able to change all of the language in their collective agreement, from “he/him” and “she/her” to the more inclusive “they” and “them.” Keep reading…
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How Not To Talk To Women
Don’t tell women they don’t understand numbers or economics or policy. Don’t talk about their age, their weight, their hair or their looks at all. Don’t call women dolls or babes or anything remotely like that. Keep reading…
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CLiFF Celebrates 10 Years
The Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF) is Canada’s sole national film festival dedicated to sharing stories about work, workers, and the labour movement. Join us! Keep reading…
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Putting Climate On The Bargaining Table
As a Crown corporation Canada Post belongs to us, the people, and we get a say in what it does. So what happens if we direct it to go 100 per cent renewable? It would be one of the largest actions the government could take against climate change. Keep reading…
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Where is Social Media Going?
Facebook is giving serious consideration to brazenly asking us to pay to ensure that it doesn’t sell our data to third parties. Like, compensation for its loss of the “right” to sell our shopping, eating, pooping and political preferences to someone or something like, oh, say Cambridge Analytica. Keep reading…
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Success From Grassroots Organizing
This encouraging book about grassroots organizing in a working-class city in the San Francisco Bay Area stands out as an account, relevant to all of us, of efforts to turn the tide. Keep reading…
