October-November 2014
Features
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SCHOOLED IN SOLIDARITY
BC teachers, parents and students, together, did their best to defend quality public education. Taking stock of the teachers’ strike.
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23 COVER STORY
DO THE RIGHT THING
“We need to intervene in our processes of organizing, collective bargaining and political action to make them equitable,” says labour educator Jojo Geronimo. A conversation about a newly launched guide to strengthening equity, for union leaders and activists.
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26 COVER STORY
MOVING BEYOND DIVERSITY
An excerpt from Moving Beyond Diversity, Towards Inclusion and Equity: A Leader’s Guide to Strengthen Unions
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32 WORKING FOR A LIVING
THE UNION’S GIFT TO ME
Being part of a union enriched my life, empowered me, and inspired me to believe there is a better way.
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MUSEUM OF A PROUD PEOPLE
Not far from the cafés of St-Denis, in Montreal, you’ll find a fascinating museum devoted to labour, working-class history and community activism. Its name is Ecomusée du Fier Monde.
Departments
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NOTES
PSAC on Income-Splitting * CETA Threatens Workers * A Mother and Daughter Hello * UFCW Canada Denounces Bill 8 * Changing Work * 2015 AFL/CLC Winter School * Injuries Not Reported
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9
OUR TIMES TALLY
Percentage of workers in Canada covered by a collective agreement: 32.
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10 WEBWORK
MAKING THUNDER & LISTENING WELL
Listen up to Leadnow and release a storm of posts with Thunderclap. Another knapsack full of online resources for union activists.
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13 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
BUILDING SOLIDARITY IN THE NORTH
If we don’t actively build solidarity between labour and Indigenous movements, corporate priorities will continue to forge deep divisions between us.
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POETRY
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41 REVIEW
DISPATCHES FROM THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE
Michael Dupuis’ book Winnipeg’s General Strike: Reports from the Front Lines uses the dispatches of 20 journalists to paint a picture of the 1919 general strike and how it was viewed.
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43 REVIEW
SOLIDARITY ON THE BIG SCREEN
Pride is a fabulous film about an unlikely collaboration between queer activists and coal miners in 1984 in Britain. Cart follows a group of contract workers at a big-box store in Seoul, South Korea. Both films celebrate the power of solidarity.
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46 REVIEW
FROM DEMONIZED TO ORGANIZED
In her book From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement, Nora Loreto presents to her generation the value of unions and self-organizing in the workplace.
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48 COMMENTARY
SCIENCE-DENIERS AND DINOSAURS
As climate-aware union activists, we need to spread the word that ignoring climate-change science, as some journalists do, is not acceptable.
