As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are inmates from California’s prison…
The administration at Queen’s University is trying to cut funding to academic programs. In response all the bargaining units at the University — including five CUPE units, as well as PSAC 901 and USW 2010 — are joining forces in an historic coordinating bargaining campaign. Together they represent over 5,000 workers including lab technicians, library technicians, food service workers, custodial and trades staff, graduate teaching assistants, and other support staff.
Amazon recently shuttered all seven Quebec warehouses, leaving approximately 1,700 workers jobless. This decision followed the recent unionization of the company’s Laval warehouse with the…
Ford’s election call is politically self-serving – designed to get re-elected before the threat of Poilievre’s cuts, and using patriotism to erase the memory of his policies and to divide workers across borders. Nonetheless, the way to respond to Ford’s early election is not to oppose the election, it is to say bring it on.
Ontario teachers, who signed a new four-year contract last year, will have to start thinking about bargaining sooner rather than later. The flood of articles…
With a federal election looming, many Canadians are worried about what will become of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system, otherwise known…
On January 15 Doug Ford was seen at a press conference sporting a hat with the phrase “Canada is not for sale”, which was met…
As part of Spring Magazine’s coverage of the CUPW strike, Vancouver Spring members visited picket lines in Richmond and Burnaby last month to get workers’…
Canada is working to further subordinate Lebanon to US and Israeli dictates. And it’s been doing so for some time. Recently, the Globe and Mail…
The narrative that the world is shifting irreversibly to the right obscures the fact that how anger is channeled depends on the political ideas and movements available to workers.
Just before the Ontario legislature rose for its winter break, Doug Ford introduced Bill 242, the Safer Municipalities Act, which escalates the ongoing criminalization of…
In May of 2024, the National Assembly of Québec renewed Bill 21, the ‘secularism law’ that forbids public sector employees from wearing religious symbols while…
