UNION HATERS ARE HAVING A HARD TIME IN B.C. There is a $100 million answer to the question “what have unions done…
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WOMEN ARE TAKING IT TO THE STREETS AGAIN. The third annual US women’s march is set for January 19. The 2018 march…
AMINA DIABY IS PERMANENTLY DEAD. She was a temp worker. But now she is dead. Her work killed her in September 2016.…
PAUL VIENNEAU IS THE “ASSHOLE WITH A SHOVEL”—and damn proud of it.
Paul chose the name for himself in 2015 when the…
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT.
It’s an idea dismissed as noble but unworkable in Canadian cities.
Without fares, who would pay?
Yet free transit…
PUBLIC SERVICES JUST WON’T DIE. No matter how hard politicians work to impose privatization on us. Reality continues to prove privatization is…
GERARD COMEAU THOUGHT HE HAD A RIGHT TO CHEAP BEER. He was wrong. The Supreme Court of Canada told him so in…
YOU WON’T SEE SEX OFFERED ON RESTAURANT MENUS. But it’s there. Restaurant workers hate it. Bosses demand it. Customers like it. And…
THAT OLD, WELL-LOVED UNION SONG STILL APPLIES. At present, of course, the banks are now more often made of glass and steel.…
MOST OF US ARE LIKE COLUMBUS BEFORE 1492. Most of us have not yet made first contact. We have no idea what…
NO, IT'S NOT A NEW DANCE FOR 2017. It’s real life shit for far too many young people who did their part…
SOMALI WORKERS IN MINNESOTA HAVE CRACKED THE AMAZON WALL. They have gotten Amazon to negotiate with them. It’s something no other workers…
MOTHERHOOD IS A DRAG AT WORK. It catches working women in a double bind. First, like all women, they have to accept…
ANGEL REYES WILL FINALLY GET PAID WHAT HE’S WORTH. Along with 1600 other workers at the Canada Fibers depot in Toronto.
The…
JUSTIN TRUDEAU BUILT US UP ONLY TO LET US DOWN. He has declared his promise of electoral reform inoperative. The next federal…
THE BAD NEWS IS MACHINES WILL SOON TAKE MORE THAN HALF OUR JOBS. The good news is there will be more than…
GEOFFREY RUBIN IS PLEASED WITH THE JOB HE’S DOING. The rest of us not so much. Not since we learned he’s investing…
HER DAD TOLD HER THE INTERNSHIP WAS A SCAM. Jainna Patel said it wasn’t. Until the day she filed her complaint against…
WHAT’S MORE IMPORTANT: JOBS OR THE ENVIRONMENT? Yes, may be the answer on offer for the people of Washington state in the…
WITHOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS WE ARE DONE. That’s why every politician from Ontario premier Doug Ford to prime minister Justin Trudeau vows…
JOHN CLARKE LOVES A GOOD FIGHT. He became famous for it in Ontario. But the man who founded and led the Ontario…
SHAWN WADE HYNES SMILED AS HE PULLED THE TRIGGER. That’s the way Nhlanhla Dlamini remembers the moments just before a 3.5 inch…
THE CHINESE CALL THEIR PROJECT “PARADISE.” The locals call it a big mistake.
The problem is the Chinese want to build their…
MOST OF OUR UNIVERSITY TEACHERS ARE GETTING SCREWED. They have few benefits, and no pension plan for retirement. They are paid by…
THE LAW CAUGHT UP WITH KAMALJIT BHALLA LAST MONTH. His mistreatment of teenage workers earned him a sentence of 15 months house…
YOU CAN FORGET THE RUMOURS ABOUT ELECTORAL REFORM. A change to proportional representation (PR) does not bring instability, uncertainty, and political conflict.…
PUBLIC SERVICES JUST WON’T DIE. No matter how hard politicians work to impose privatization on us. Reality continues to prove privatization is…
MILLENNIALS CAN’T CATCH A BREAK. They’ve got a lot to complain about but get nothing but grief when they do. A lot…
JAKE MOGGERIDGE IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE DISHWASHER. He gets paid $16 an hour at the Union Local 613 restaurant in Ottawa. He’s…
JUSTIN MATHEWS IS DEAD. His job killed him. It happens a lot. Mostly because we just don’t care enough about worker safety.…