Union Exchange
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This is What We Do
Union Solidarity with Migrant Farm Workers
“I think it’s our social responsibility, our political commitment, to protect workers,” says Santiago Escobar, a national representative with UFCW Canada. Keep reading…
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Building an Anti-Racist Labour Movement
Unifor’s Experience
“My hope is that we start putting humanity first and start seeing each other as human beings,” says Christine Maclin, Unifor’s director of human rights. “The survival of all of us depends on it.” 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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ROOTED IN UNITY
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists on the Move, Together
The need for unity could not be greater, whether we’re facing the rise of white supremacist ideology in the U.S. (and Canada); Ontario premier Doug Ford’s unremitting cuts to public services, police oversight and environmental regulations; or Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s genocidal destruction of the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous peoples. Keep reading…
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Green is Not White
Environmental Justice for All
The Green is Not White workshop brings cases of environmental racism closer to home by providing local examples and giving participants the tools to identify environmental injustices in their own homes, communities, and workplaces. Keep reading…
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Mass Incarceration Is Modern Day Slavery
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists builds the case that labour must join the struggle to end the mass incarceration of racialized and Indigenous people across North America and throughout the world. We cannot truly combat anti-Black racism without doing so. Keep reading…
