Articles
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Pay Us for The Work We Do
“If your parents are letting you live in the basement, you might as well go out and do something for free to put the experience on your CV.” So says Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada. His understanding comes from the place of privilege that an annual salary of $434,000 provides. Keep reading…
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Vacationing Amongst the Socialists
The France held up by neoliberal commentators and right-wing pundits like the Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente is a pure invention, one intended to convince us that big government, high taxes, strong employment protections, and generous social programs stifle economic growth and hurt our interests. Keep reading…
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Shoulder to Shoulder
Migrant and Canadian Workers Forge Solidarity
There are few reported instances of alliances between migrant workers and Canadian workers, and of thinking about how the two groups could come together. In June of 2014, an opportunity arose to do just that in the Windsor-Essex region of Ontario. Keep reading…
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Stand Up for Teachers
An Interview with Comedian/Teacher Paul Bae
“It was my mother’s idea for me to be a comedian,” Bae says. But back in the 1990s, Bae had other ideas. He wanted to become a teacher. He says his parents tried to talk him out of it. Keep reading…
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Hashtag Hijinks & Facebook’s Fast One
Hashtag hijacking, tweeting under a trending hashtag to serve your own agenda, is an underused tactic. There is some productive fun to be had for those who are a dab hand on the tweet button. Keep reading…
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Return to Sender
Fighting the Plan to End Door-to-Door Delivery
Victoria, BC, postal worker Frances Maher says, “I had a lady give me a hug today. She was in her 70s and was very upset. We had been talking about the new community mailboxes.” The fight to save door-to-door delivery. Keep reading…
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Organizing to End Poverty
The Struggle for Economic Justice
Listening to leaders from some of the Greater Toronto Area’s most disenfranchised communities taught me a lesson in the realities of marginalization, but also in the amazing work being done to challenge it. Keep reading…
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No Time to Bury Debate
It’s difficult to forge unity within Canada’s large and geographically diverse labour movement around environmental issues. Nonetheless, we need to try. Keep reading…
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Twitter Tips & Tweetfests
Unifor is applying the open-organizing approach to their online communications. Their monthly question-and-answer period with the union’s president, on Twitter, is making a bit of a splash. Keep reading…
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Equal Pay for Equal Work
Time to End Two-Tier Wage Contracts
No other major issue looms over young people more ominously (besides climate change) than that of the growing acceptance of paying them less for doing the same work as older workers, through two-tier wage provisions in collective agreements. Keep reading…
