For the past ten weeks, 1200 workers at LifeLabs in BC have been on a rotating strike for better wages and working conditions. The workers…
Anticipating attacks on workers pay and rights, the Alberta Federation of Labour and 26 unions representing more than 300,000 workers announced a “solidarity pact” on…
CUPE 3902, representing contract academic workers at the University of Toronto, has held its strike mandate vote. This is a bargaining year for Units 2,…
On March 3rd, the Toronto Public Libraries Workers’ Union (TPLWU or CUPE 4948), representing approximately 2,300 Toronto Public Library workers, announced that its members had…
Headlines about low voter turnout have become commonplace across the country in recent years. Even as the political stakes are higher, people seem understandably checked…
2,000 workers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario are out on strike. PSAC 901 Unit 1, representing 2000 graduate teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and research…
On March 6, a frigid day in Toronto, CUPE 79 workers gathered outside the Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, alongside community supporters, to make their demands…
On Thursday, a coalition of workers, housing and healthcare activists, and more held a press conference calling for urgent government action to protect workers and…
On Sunday, January 19 2025, Hamiltonian progressive and leftist communities organized outside of the Hamilton Jewish Federation’s (HJF) building in anticipation of Melissa Lantsman, a…
Over 30,000 municipal employees, represented by Canadian Public Employees Union (CUPE) Local 79, have been in bargaining with the City of Toronto since their contract expired at the end of December. On January 21, the union held a vote to determine if workers were ready to go on strike to win their demands. The vote had an unprecedented turnout, and a huge majority came out in favour of job action. With this incredibly successful vote, the members of Local 79 have signalled that they are ready to fight for fair wages and stronger public services.
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…
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’…
