Bill 124 must be challenged, and not just in the courts. If it is allowed to stand, Ford will continue to illegally infringe on public sector workers’ rights to collectively bargain, which disproportionately impacts women workers.
Prisons have always been a public health crisis for communities made vulnerable by racialized policing. But now they represent a public health crisis for us all. If we are serious about ending the pandemic, we ignore the mass prisoner releases at our own peril.
We have to reject winnowing the entire COVID debate down to punitive powers of mandates and lockdowns and focus on building broad campaigns that speak to issues faced by workers. To do otherwise is to leave the door open for the rightwing to pull the entire debate to the right and strengthen the hand of the bosses.
Of the numerous misconceptions about unions, one of the most prominent and problematic is what’s known as the ‘third party fallacy’. According to this fallacy,…
Not only has the Ontario government provided paid sick days that are less than adequate in number and only temporary in duration, but they have…
The Black Panther Party faced an incredible challenge, trying to grow into an organization that could lead a movement against capitalism, imperialism and racism, against a state set on destroying them. To this day, their 10-point program stands as a set of ideas and concrete demands that would eliminate racism and challenge the capitalist system to its very core.
Nineteen years ago today the Canadian government hosted a meeting that significantly impacted two decades of Haitian politics. Jean Chretien’s Liberals organized an international gathering…
By planting trees atop Indigenous villages, uprooting endemic agriculture, and blocking Palestinians’ access to extremely scarce water sources, the Jewish National Fund plays a key role in the uprooting and desecration of Palestinian land and livelihoods.
Less than 12 hours after co-sponsoring a labour-led discussion on the rights of gig workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) announced it had…
The emergence of yet another COVID variant and a surge of new infections and restrictions have people wondering if this pandemic will ever end. We’ve known…
Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at…
At the same time as the pandemic caused 100 million people worldwide to fall into extreme poverty, the world’s billionaires enjoyed their highest increases in…
