The federal government says new labour rules will reduce intervention in strikes, but they could weaken workers’ bargaining power.
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Not all union endorsements carry the same weight, but they can play a strategically critical role in election campaigns.
Premier Doug Ford received more union endorsements in his recent campaign. The impact of the endorsements may be exaggerated, but there are implications for Canada’s labour movement.
After decades of inflation and wage stagnation have eroded wages for workers, the upcoming wage hikes represent progress. But workers certainly deserve more than that.
Workers in industries like railways and air travel have significant structural power and can use their leverage to win favourable contracts because of the amount of economic disruption they can cause.
Unions speaking out on issues as contentious as Israel-Palestine is nothing new. They have a long history of staking international positions on everything from apartheid to the Vietnam War.
No video game workers are currently unionized in Québec, but a new labour partnership is looking to change that.
The rise in union support can be explained by the growing recognition people are having of their own disadvantages, and the anger they feel about it.
The transition to net zero emissions is under grave threat if governments do not do more to address the potential unfairness of some climate policies.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
Impressive as results from four-day work-week trials may appear, it’s still not clear if they would apply across the economy.
The goal of the labour movement is to advance the interests of workers everywhere. Nativist narratives about defending Canada could explain Pierre Poilievre’s popularity among some union members.
If the labour movement can organize and mobilize working people in B.C. and Canada, the change could be significant.
In this time of unrest, insecurity and fear, unions and their new, more diverse leadership offer a path to improving workers’ rights and repairing deep social and economic inequalities.
Staten Island’s Amazon union has proven that one of the most powerful anti-union companies in North America can be unionized.
The political muscle of unions that helped to launch the NDP in was never that strong in the first place. Even worse for the party, it’s atrophied considerably over the course of the last 60 years.
Unions must continue to try to recruit and sustain a critical mass of women, particularly visible minority and LBGTQ women, into leadership roles in the years to come.
Politicians oppose toll roads on Johannesburg’s highways, yet they are textbook example of progressive taxation that favours the poor.
Labor’s defeat revives a familiar problem in Australian political history: the left’s inability to show how its policies can improve people’s material conditions.
Lots of things have happened in a century, but poverty has proven persistently hard to treat.
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