Mayworks Festival showcases artists as workers, workers as artists
Cover image: “Holding the Line” by Ibrahim Abusitta. View the full painting in Toronto at 25 Cecil St during this year’s Mayworks Festival, taking place…
Cover image: “Holding the Line” by Ibrahim Abusitta. View the full painting in Toronto at 25 Cecil St during this year’s Mayworks Festival, taking place…
Across Ontario, education workers are preparing for a province-wide Day of Action: a day to show that the people who make schools run every single day…
Deux blocages contre l’ICE, organisés par des syndicats et des groupes étudiants du Minnesota, ont secoué les États-Unis en janvier. Ces manifestations ont été déclenchées…
“We don’t have to watch things get worse, or wait for politicians to save us. Yes, we need champions in labour, and we must push…
On February 13, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) bargaining team announced major victories on key contract demands. The strike by 6,000 public schoolteachers…
Support workers with OPSEU Local 249 are in their twelfth week of a strike. They are fighting for better wages and have not seen a raise since 2020.
Watching the anti-ICE fightback from afar, workers worldwide are feeling inspired by the unifying tactics of their Minnesotan counterparts. But it’s not enough for us to be online witnesses to this fight. There is a role we can play this week in helping build the confidence of Minnesota workers and immigrant communities as they stare down ICE and Trump, and in helping raise the profile of this fight among our own co-workers and fellow union members.
When I sat down to watch Union and University at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival this year in Toronto, I expected a documentary about…
No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke (2025) In 1973 the United Auto Workers (UAW) purchased over $300,000…
Marx’s concept of Surplus Value All wages are theft. The wage system itself is built on a structural imbalance: workers sell their labour power, but…
This week, flight attendants working for Air Canada are defying the Liberal governments’ attempt to force them back to work. One of the key issues…
The Carney government has chosen to stand with Air Canada executives rather than the thousands who keep the airline running — and flight attendants are fighting back.

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