CUPE National's Archana Rampure talks about the lessons she learned during a recent solidarity mission to Bangladesh
When I think of Bangladesh,…
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A sober second look at the Ontario's budget promise for free high education
The Ontario Liberal promise to make post-secondary education free…
Updates from CUPE municipal workers' bargaining in Toronto
Toronto City outside workers will decide in the next few days whether to accept…
Part four in Rabble-CALM's special on the minimum wage
Staff compensation packages can be a significant determining factor in the success of…
Unions need to look for new ways to help workers. Could this include purchasing Goodwill?
Earlier this week, Goodwill announced that they…
Helping parents of young children find the balance between home and activism, without asking them to check out.
On Wednesday morning, I…
Mainstream journalism is at the whims of capitalism. It's time to untangle journalism from the beast.
Canadian media companies are sawing off…
How activists engage on social media says a lot about how they approach movement building. We should all pause and ask ourselves:…
Tracking the fight at the Halifax Chronicle Herald
Chronicle Herald labour battles:
February 2015: 13 unionized press workers locked out after rejecting proposals…
Re-visiting the minimum income experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba
Eric Richardson still has the dining table and chairs his parents bought during the…
CUPE Locals 79 and 416 gear up for possible labour dispute
Thousands of City of Toronto workers are facing sweeping contract changes…
Part two in Rabble-CALM's special on the minimum wage
British Columbia resident Amanda Sillanpaa is working to make a better life for…
Workers rally at Toronto's Queen's Park to protest cuts to healthcare spending
Hundreds of workers protesting nine years of cuts to Ontario's…
Update on federal civil servant bargaining
As Parliament kicks into another year, federal civil servants are halting legal action against the government…
Chronicling the unmaking of Canada's oldest and largest English-language independant
Photographer Christian Laforce has been a loyal supporter of the Halifax Chronicle Herald since…
The slow death of the traditional news media has left many communities without access to quality local news
News of significant staff…
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The politics of scabbing exposes the differences that divide generations in the labour movement
Journalists at the Halifax Chronicle Herald are staring down a…
Tallying up the layoffs announced at the end of 2015
One of the cruel realities of modern capitalism is that December brings…
Workers are resisting a concessions offer from management of the Best Western Seven Oaks in Regina.
Hotel workers at the Best Western…
Tracking the similar struggles staring down unions in 2016
As Canada's unions celebrate their first victory -- the elimination of the Harper…
CALM has a series of how-to manuals. The latest, How to Deal Effectively With Media, is available for download here. This is…
Originally published as "The 12 days of strike," check out this highlight of workers struggles from every province and territory in 2015…
The Educator is the official newsletter of OPSEU Local 110, the Fanshawe College Faculty Union.
In the November 2015 issue:
Frank Green writes about…
Unions need to find a way to work together to strengthen their bargaining positions
On November 12, Nova Scotia Teacher Union's negotiator…
It isn't an exaggeration to say that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will fundamentally change global trade and work.
It isn't an exaggeration to…
Teasing out the good from the bad of data-driven campaigns
In my more pathetic hours I can be found staring at the…
Gauging party promises: teasing out the truths from the lies.
Rabble.ca’s election coverage has included a daily fact check post to help…
Tracking all that Harper has done as Prime Minister; Special election content for CALM members - 700 words
Stephen Harper has been…
Special election content for CALM members.
Harper has been Prime Minister for almost a decade. In that time, the Conservative government’s war…