Summer 2016
Features
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KILL A WORKER, GO TO JAIL
Migrant workers and the Westray Bill: the scaffolding deaths revisited.
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22 COVER STORY
THE PRICE OF SUGAR
After working for seven years in the fields of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, Roberto Valdivia developed a disease that is killing tens of thousands of sugarcane workers there.
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30
I CAN’T WORK IF I CAN’T BREATHE
As the Black Lives Matter movement rises, Canada’s labour movement needs to get on board. Here’s why.
Departments
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5
NOTES
Pride at Work * Remembering Carole Pearson * BC Health Care Workers Win * Austerity vs. Just Transition First Nations Water Workers * Bully-free Workplaces Fight for 15 While Singing
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8 WEBWORK
QUIDI VIDI & VIRTUAL ORGANIZING
When a meeting costs a worker more time than it takes them to commute from one Tuesday job to another, we need to think virtual.
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10
OUR TIMES TALLY
Chance that a death in a Canadian workplace results from a disease caused by exposure to asbestos: 1 in 3
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11 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY WORKERS
Here’s how the labour movement can lead the fight against both unemployment and catastrophic climate change.
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13 TRIBUTE
THERE’S JUST ONE WINNIE
When I got the email inviting me to a retirement party for Winnie Ng, I couldn’t believe it.
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41 HAVE YOUR SAY
CANE AND ABLE
My cane transforms people. They feel obliged to explain incredibly obvious things to me, and they often speak slowly and loudly, in very simple sentences.
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43 HAVE YOUR SAY
FUTURE DISCONTINUED
No other generation in Canadian history has experienced so much underemployment.
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47
POETRY
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48 REVIEWS
GOODWIN’S WAY
Filmmaker Neil Vokey meets the residents of Cumberland, BC, and finds their passion echoes that of legendary union organizer, Ginger Goodwin.
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51
TRUMBO
Trumbo validates the courageous struggles of a voice almost silenced by McCarthyism in the 1940s and ‘50s.
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51 COMMENTARY
JOKERS TO THE RIGHT
With the right wing becoming increasingly clownish, it’s time we learned more lessons from, ahem, Archie Bunker.
