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…
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’…
Visiting the picket line solidifies that this fight is bigger than fair wages—it is about defending public sector jobs, good pensions, and rejecting the aggressive push towards precarious and casual work.
Tobias “Tobi” Lutke, the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the huge e-commerce company based in Ottawa, Ontario, has been loudly advocating against the Canadian Union…
On Friday, 55,000 workers for the Canada Post Corporation (CPC) walked off their jobs after a year of unfruitful bargaining. They are seeking fair wages, proper benefits, and to fight against privatization in their line of work.
On November 7, after nine months of negotiations and nine proposals rejected by their employer, City of Brampton workers started their strike. CUPE Local 831…
In late August, multiple corporate media outlets circulated pictures supplied to them by the RCMP of two women wanted by police for stealing food items…
On August 23, the striking Metro grocery workers’ fight for fair wages moved to round-the-clock secondary picket lines at two Metro distribution warehouses in Toronto.
On July 1, over 7000 dockworkers in BC walked off the job after a resounding 99.2% strike vote. But if the federal government wants to break the strike, we have to start showing our solidarity with dockworkers right now.
Two hundred and fifty workers at Windsor Salt have been on strike against union busting since February, while Ford sides with scabs and the company.
The process of rebuilding a revolutionary presence in the labor movement will be a long one, but like-minded organizations should discuss those issues that bring us together and those that separate us. Common political work around UPS is a good place to start.
Ford’s stunning reversal on Bill 28 shows when the working class unites and fights back it has the power to take on the Conservatives and win.
