Spring 2017

Features

• 15 KEEP ON MARCHING

  FIRST BREATHE, THEN PUSH

  Nrinder N.K. Nann

  Now is the time to come together with empathy, with compassion, with love and respect.

• 18 KEEP ON MARCHING

  Why Showing Up matters

  Andrea Addario

  Millions of us claimed the streets on January 21. Why did we do it? And what did it mean?

• 22 COVER STORY

  GETTING DOWN TO WORK WITH A WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT COLLECTIVE

  Hillary Di Menna

  Inside Times Change — a Toronto collective that’s been alive and thriving for over 35 years.

• 29

  THE ELEPHANT IN LABOUR’S ROOM

  Mark Brown

  Making the case for applying a labour rights model to sex work in Canada.

• 29

  BUTTERFLY VOICES

  Alvis Choi and Elene Lam

  Migrant sex workers share their stories, their dreams, and their wishes in their own words.

• 37

  STANDING UP FOR ECONOMIC EQUALITY

  Jan Borowy and Fay Faraday

  Precarity deepens the gender pay gap: women make up 70 per cent of part-time workers.

• 46

  A RADICAL CELEBRATION OF LABOUR

  Melissa Keith

  The Nova Scotian workforce is ever-evolving and the Mayworks Halifax Festival is evolving along with it.

Departments

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  NOTES

  Women’s Work Union Video * 4 Directions Arts Festival Fight For $15 & Fairness * Retail Action Network

• 9 WEBWORK

  FAB PODCASTS & FAKE CAMPAIGNS

  Derek Blackadder

  You don’t think fake campaigns exist in our trade union world? Think again.

• 11

  OUR TIMES TALLY

  Sean Cain

  Additional income attained by Canadian women each week from working in a unionized workplace: $574 million

• 13 CLIMATE/JUSTICE

  DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL

  James Hutt

  Sanctuary cities can offer safety and security for those who may be forced to migrate due to catastrophic climate change.

• 42

  POETRY

  Barb Thomas
• 44 WORKING FOR A LIVING

  WHAT’S IN A NAME

  Vivien Endicott-Douglas

  Usually the question “Were you comfortable with that?” comes after the fact.

• 48 HAVE YOUR SAY

  STEPPING BACK TO CREATE SPACE

  Stephen Elliott-Buckley

  I’ve lived half a century and only now am I getting a true understanding of how to step back to create space for others.

• 50 REVIEW

  NO SHORTCUTS: ORGANIZING FOR POWER

  Review by James Hutt

  Labour has been losing in recent years, argues Jane McAlevey, due to a failed theory of change.

• 52 COMMENTARY

  BORDERS CANNOT STEAL OUR SPIRITS

  Amal Rana

  We walk each other to the bus and give each other rides. We feed each other meals and resilience.