Articles
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Vaccination
Solidarity in Action
I understand the visceral notion that your body is yours and you alone may decide what to do with it, but all choices are not made in isolation. We live in community, we form societies, we have responsibilities to each other. Keep reading…
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String Theory & Starbucks Strategy
Eric Lee of LabourStart fame has recently developed what he calls the Starbucks Theory of Online Action Appeals Frequency. Try it! Keep reading…
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Young Organizers Make the Connections
An Interview with Kevin Shimmin
I think young workers are witnessing and participating in these broad-based social movements, for climate justice, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous movements. For this generation, it’s so much easier to make the connection and ask: why shouldn’t I be fighting for justice at my workplace? Keep reading…
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Public Pensions and Privatization
How Our CPP is Propping Up Bolsonaro
Canadians need to know that over $900 million dollars of their public pension money is being used to privatize water and sanitation services in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Keep reading…
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Read, Learn, Reckon
A Letter from the Anti-Oppression Educators Collective
It is imperative that settlers in the BC education system read and learn from the Truth and Reconciliation report and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. And then work on implementing actions. Let’s make it mandatory. Keep reading…
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We Need a Plan
Transition is Inevitable But Justice is Not
What has been missing in this shameful tragedy is any discussion of a just transition whereby Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil and gas workers and their communities would be partners in planning for an orderly shift towards a low-carbon energy future, one that includes high-quality, decent-paying jobs. Keep reading…
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The COVID-19 Union Wave
Organizing Retail Workers from Coast to Coast
The story of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada — now over a year in its writing — has also inevitably become a story about work. A growing wave of union drives across Canada in stores of all kinds — including cannabis dispensaries, coffee shops and bookstores — is creating alternatives to the status quo. Keep reading…
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Could An App Replace Your Union?
Outwitting Digital Disruptors with Deep Organizing
Consider this thought: what would happen if tech entrepreneurs saw unions as not just obstacles to the exploitation of workers, but as a potential new market? Keep reading…
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Vax Charity is Not Justice
A Call for Universal and Equitable Access to Vaccines
All of us have a vested interest in ensuring that COVID vaccines are mass produced in local hubs and quickly distributed across the world. None of us will be safe till all of us are safe. Keep reading…
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No Way to Treat a Hero
Alberta Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines
Alberta healthcare workers are tired of the government calling them “heroes” while it erodes their working conditions and jeopardizes their safety. Keep reading…
