Volume 32, Number 3
Features
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THANK YOU TO 2012 DONORS
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COVER STORY: THE MOVEMENT AND THE MESSAGE
Corporations and right-wing governments are constantly engaging in efforts to re-brand and re-frame themselves. In contrast, we in the labour movement seem resistant to change. A conversation with Trish Hennessey, Jennifer Huang, Joel Duff and Marie Della Mattia about the need for Canadian labour to better communicate with average Canadians.
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HOW TO REVITALIZE UNION WOMEN’S COMMITTEES
A conversation about revisioning and revitalizing union women’s committees, the last of three articles based on the project “Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada.”
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WORKING FOR A LIVING: RECREATION CENTRE WORKER
Despite our best efforts, we cannot keep everyone free from harm. But we love our work, the kids, and do the best we can.
Departments
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LETTERS
Weak Response to Bangladesh’s Tragedy * In Response
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NOTES
Our Times and CALM Awards * Adriane Paavo Joins Our Times * Lifetime Achievement Award for Educator * Workers of Colour/Aboriginal Workers Conference * Who’s Online at Our Times* UALE Labour History Walking Tours * Mayworks Halifax Book Launch
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WEBWORK: DIGITAL DIVIDE
Do we really want to emulate corporations and cut off whole chunks of the working class from what we do just because we’re enamoured of the new media?
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OUR TIMES TALLY
Chance that a new job created in Canada since 2008 has been temporary: 1 in 2
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POETRY
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HAVE YOUR SAY: HANDS OFF THE CBC
The Harper Conservatives’ proposed legislation to supposedly make the CBC “more accountable” is a smokescreen for taking control of the public broadcaster.
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REVIEW: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION, DAYS OF REVOLT
Equal parts oral-history reader, travelogue and political manifesto, this book offers a series of portraits of ordinary American people caught in the crosshairs of corporate abuse and government indifference.
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COMMENTARY: UNTANGLING THE TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER KNOT
The temporary foreign worker issue is wrapped up in a number of intersecting topics, including minimum and living wages, the role of the market in setting wages, immigration and job training.
