Building an organizing union
By Ben Sichel What gives unions their power? On the surface, the answer is simple: strength in numbers. A single worker has little power to negotiate wages or resolve conflict with an employer, but a...
View Article1970s Inflation Crisis: When Trudeau hammered workers
By Doug Nesbitt During the infamous inflation crisis of the 1970s, Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals imposed strict wage controls on workers in late 1975. The federal government created a handpicked...
View ArticleCost of Living Crisis: Fight or Crawl?
By Lee Gilchrist On October 25, City of Winnipeg workers in CUPE Local 500 ratified a tentative agreement recommended by their bargaining team. The union negotiating committee’s email to members on...
View ArticleTime for Cyclesmith to shift gears
Former employees blow the whistle on workplace sexism and non-compliance By Lisa Cameron on behalf of the Halifax Workers’ Action Centre Recently, Cyclesmith’s tires have been pumped. Celebrated for...
View ArticleXmas card “intimidation” and Alberta’s anti-picketing laws
By Bob Barnetson An unfair labour practice complaint, alleging Christmas cards sent by a union to the employer’s bargaining team amounted to “Mafia-esque” intimidation, provides insight into the...
View Article“Back to the table” says PSAC member
By Deanna Allain Member of the Union of Taxation Employees Local 00014 (PSAC) As a young worker new to the workforce, I never imagined I would be lucky enough to be a union member, and I certainly...
View ArticleAn economic snapshot of Saskatchewan (from labour’s standpoint)
By Andrew Stevens Sunny ways are back in Saskatchewan. Manufacturing sales are up, exports are growing, oil production and mineral sales have increased,[1] and the provincial government raked in a $1.2...
View ArticleInside Amazon’s two-tier system at a Montreal warehouse
By Anna Luxemburg Seasonal, part-time, full-time – titles that seemingly distinguish different categories of workers in Amazon’s warehouses in Montreal. However, delve deeper and you’ll find that these...
View ArticleRemember Lac-Mégantic!
In the early hours of July 6, 2013, a parked Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway train’s brakes failed. Crewed by a single person, the train was carrying oil cars and derailed in the Quebec town of...
View ArticleArbitration tactic a mistake, says OSSTF member
By Anthony Marco, OSSTF member Here’s why I will be voting AGAINST the upcoming OSSTF proposal to use arbitration as a tactic to prompt more effective bargaining with Ford’s Conservatives. I will be...
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