fight for 15 and fairness: brampton forum for decent work
After our members returned to work, but while I was still on staycation, I attended a community event organized by labour activists in Peel Region. It was a beautifully planned…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Krugman rightly points out that it's to be expected that Republican establishment figures would line up behind Donald Trump since he shares their…
A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathy Weeks
Poster by See Red Women’s Workshop, a U.K. feminist silk-screen collective formed in Camden, London in the 1970s. Katie Cruz: Since you wrote The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork…
A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks
Poster by See Red Women’s Workshop, a U.K. feminist silk-screen collective formed in Camden, London in the 1970s. Katie Cruz: Since you wrote The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork…
Introduction: Basic Questions
Photo by Russell Shaw Higgs, March 3, 2013; posted on Basic Income U.K. Facebook page. What do Erik Olin Wright, Yanis Varoufakis, Hugh Segal, Elizabeth May and the Liberal Party…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William G. Gale, Hilary Gelfond and Aaron Krupkin examine the evidence as to the effects of upper-class tax cuts, and find that they…
what the strike meant to us, in our own words
Image: "We Hit Them Like A Wave" -- Diane DaviesAfter CUPE 1989 ratified our new contract, I said I would write about the intangible gains we made through our strike,…
what the strike meant to us, in our own words
Image: "We Hit Them Like A Wave" -- Diane DaviesAfter CUPE 1989 ratified our new contract, I said I would write about the intangible gains we made through our strike,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Michael Wasser comments on the importance of unions - and the need to ensure that corporate-dominated politics don't stand in the way of…
Work Life: What’s At Stake At Canada Post?
Photo by Michael Gil The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is currently engaged in collective bargaining with Canada Post. Unlike in previous rounds, the contracts of both the Urban…
New column day
Here, on the continuing obstacles to pay equity and other gender equality in the workplace.For further reading...- For background on the current state of the gender pay gap in Canada,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Mariana Mazzucato discusses (JPG) the importance of an intelligent industrial strategy. And David Kotz argues that neoliberal capitalism has reached the point where…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Atrios offers a reminder as to how means-testing tends to make social programs more vulnerable to attack without making our overall tax system more…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Walkom writes that with both major U.S. presidential candidates taking an understandably skeptical view of free-trade agreements in their current form, Canada shouldn't…
we have a new contract
Our ratification vote meeting was an experience we will never forget. The line to sign in snaked all around the building; it took more than an hour for everyone to…
we have a new contract
Our ratification vote meeting was an experience we will never forget. The line to sign in snaked all around the building; it took more than an hour for everyone to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andrew Jackson discusses the challenge of ensuring that stable jobs are available in Canada:Good jobs are a central mechanism in the creation of shared…
Postal Workers Confront Canada Post
Photo from Public Domain A major confrontation is in the making at Canada Post. On the one hand, post office management is seeking to extract a series of far ranging…