Articles
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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…
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The Wisdom Of Working People
The wisdom of working people will soon be given more sway at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University when the school launches a Bachelor of Arts in Labour Studies this coming September. Keep reading…
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Rally For Decent Work
A heat wave didn’t stop over 1,500 labour and community activists from joining the Rally for Decent Work, in downtown Toronto. The Fight for $15 and Fairness continues. Keep reading…
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Commemorating Ginger Goodwin 100 Years On
Labour martyr Ginger Goodwin has never been forgotten, and on the upcoming 100th anniversary of his death, Cumberland, BC will be honouring his memory in a big way on Miners Memorial Weekend. Keep reading…
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Go Vote, For Ontario’s Sake!
We can debate among ourselves about how to hold any NDP government to account. We can make plans to keep up the public pressure on government to do what’s right for the many. But that’s on June 8th. From now to June 7th, we need to do whatever it takes to make sure that the NDP wins. Because if they do not form government, Doug Ford will. Keep reading…
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Fighting For $15 And Fairness
Through the Eyes of Women Activists
Advocacy worker Nadira Begum is one of the activists behind the unstoppable Fight for $15 and Fairness movement. The campaign is resonating with workers all across the country who know the impossible struggle of life on minimum wage. Keep reading…
