Articles
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Zooming in Post-Pandemic Times
Adapting to a New Normal
If the shift to Zoom and Jitsi and Skype for meetings means that people, mostly women, with pressing responsibilities in their homes or at other jobs, are suddenly finding it easier, even just plain easy, to participate in their union, why would we not think seriously about making this a standard rather than a COVID-related exception? Keep reading…
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Care Work is Climate Work
Long-Term Care and a Green New Deal
We must ensure that care workers are well paid and unionized, with good benefits and vastly improved working conditions. That in itself is a climate solution. Keep reading…
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Breaking Into White Spaces
Black Woman in Green
Like others who’ve lamented the lack of racial diversity in North American parks, campgrounds, and conservation areas, blogger Jacqueline Scott can now rejoice in the release of Gloria Brown’s riveting memoir about her journey to forest service leadership. A review. Keep reading…
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Reclaiming the Vision
Transforming Long-Term Care in Canada
Long-term care workers, unions, and seniors’ advocates have flagged the problems existing in long-term care for decades. It’s time to reclaim the original health-care vision of Tommy Douglas to help us move beyond the broken LTC system. Keep reading…
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Actors in a Pandemic
The Precarity of Performers’ Lives
A year ago, film, television, commercial and animation productions were being made at a record-breaking pace in this country. As 2020 began, all signs pointed to yet another banner year. Then COVID-19 hit. Keep reading…
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Through Tear Gas and Time
In many ways, the actions of the police forces 10 years ago during the G20 in Toronto foreshadowed the brutal actions of so many police forces in the decade since. Keep reading…
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The Time Has Come
Two things have hit Canadian society with a vengeance, and both have laid bare the anti-Black racism that exists here. There is much work to do. Keep reading…
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Will a UBI Cure Capitalism?
Lockdowns, closed borders, lost lives and economic turmoil have all sparked national discussions about how to recover and, more importantly, how to treat some of capitalism’s worst symptoms to prevent the next crisis. Keep reading…
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Pondering Pandemic Workarounds
COVID-19 as an Opportunity
Our goal shouldn’t be to use the internet just to get around the current problems we face in doing union work. It should be to use the COVID crisis to remake the way in which we organize, internally and externally. Keep reading…
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Dear White Sisters and Brothers
A Letter from a Union Educator
I hope this letter gives you some insight and you will reflect on what it is you can and will do. I am determined, until I can no longer breathe, to work to leave a “better world” not only for my grandchildren, but for all our grandchildren. Keep reading…
