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.
It is quite a remarkable moment in our history that the Canadian Labour Congress has found its voice over the genocide in Gaza. CLC President,…
We are the Union: How Worker-to-worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University Of California Press, 2025) Eric Blanc’s We are…
The recent strike by the Cape Breton Island Building & Construction Trades Council and its affiliate unions was a direct continuation of the militant trade…
Photo: Nova Scotia Federation of Labour A tentative agreement was reached in the early morning of Monday July 21, 2025 between the affiliate unions of…
The tariff wars unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump are plunging the global economy into crisis. This tariff crisis has heightened antagonism between capitalist states,…
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