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Summer 2022

Features

  • 14

    TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 14 ARE WORKERS’ RIGHTS

    HASEENA MANEK

    In 2019, Jessie Nelson was fired from their job as a server in a restaurant on BC’s sunshine coast. Then Nelson brought their case to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.

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    EXPERIENCES IN OPEN BARGAINING

    MELISSA KEITH

    “Throughout the bargaining round, the local’s position at the table is hotly debated at membership meetings, so the bargaining team knows exactly what the general membership wants, and what they will ratify,” says Graeme Reniers.

  • 24

    LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD

    CHRISTOPHER WILSON

    To remind ourselves of the power of working people and to inspire us in the days ahead, we need only look back to the most recent International Workers’ Day.

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    TEACHER, STUDENT, WORKER

    HASEENA MANEK

    As the number of contract staff continues to rise, and employers incessantly push for gigification, contract academic workers are bargaining against precarity.

Departments

  • 6

    UPFRONT

    Letter to the Editor • International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia • CUPW Celebrates Membertou Community Hub • Archana Rampure Will Return

  • 9

    OUR TIMES TALLY

    SEAN CAIN

    • Rank of Uruguay as having the highest level of labour and union rights in the Western Hemisphere: 1
    • Percentage of countries throughout the world in 2021 that violated the right to collective bargaining: 79

  • 11 CLIMATE/JUSTICE

    LESSONS FROM LOS ANGELES

    JAMES HUTT

    The United Teachers of Los Angeles’s visionary Beyond Recovery platform prioritizes both the climate and the common good.

  • 12 WEBWORK

    ACTION IN THE ERA OF CONVENIENT SOLIDARITY

    DEREK BLACKADDER

    If the days when an overloaded inbox would scare a transnational corporation are gone, then how do we measure the success of Convenient Solidarity Actions?

  • 37 WORKING FOR A LIVING

    TENTING ON A RIVERBED

    CALI HAAN

    “What you’re looking at” — he swept his hand casually at the miles of clearcut whizzing by — “is the Bowron Cut. It’s a cut so big it’s visible from space.”

  • 42 HAVE YOUR SAY

    NO WAY TO LEARN

    JANE KEATING

    Teachers are burning out as they try to meaningfully reach two radically different groups of students every day.

  • 44 HAVE YOUR SAY

    STELLA PALMER AND THE POWER OF SENIORS

    MARION POLLACK

    Seniors are people who can and will fight back when wronged.

  • 46 REVIEW

    LIVING IN INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY

    SYLVIA SMITH

    This powerful book reminds us that settlers cannot wait for our leaders to show us, or to “manage,” the way out of the mess we’ve made.

  • 48 BACKPAGE COMMENTARY

    “TIRED, ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED”

    YVETTE COFFEY AND LINDA SILAS

    People go into nursing because they want to help people and aren’t afraid of a tough job. The problem is it’s not a tough job anymore, it’s an impossible one.