By Mitchell Shore Socialist Action – Toronto members proudly joined the June 13 People's Rally at Queen's Park to protest some of the first actions of the Doug Ford-led Progressive Conservative Party government. On June 7, the Tories won 76…
The Winnipeg General Strike began on the 15th of May 1919 and ended on the 25th of June. During that time, the strike Committee, set up by the unions, ran the city. It was the first worker run city in…
Read More The Winnipeg General strike in the Context of the Bolshevik Revolution
BY CHRIS GOSSE* There is a train of thought that imagines new technology has the potential for great job creation. You can go to McDonald’s and to your local grocery store and use automated machines to do a self check-…
by Mike Palecek, President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Introduction: On January 17, 2018, UNIFOR, the largest mostly private sector union in Canada announced that it quit the Canadian Labour Congress. On its website, UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias and…
Read More CLC: Disaffiliation, Dues Strike or Special Convention?
by Julius Arscott * The Ontario Federation of Labour convention, held in Toronto, November 20 -24, saw several large affiliates that withheld dues for four years rejoin the House of Labour in Canada’s most populous province. The dues strike by…
by Barry Weisleder After 86 per cent of 12,000 Ontario community college teachers rejected Management's last offer in a forced vote, the Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne broke their strike with a law pushed through the Ontario Legislature on Sunday, November…
Read More Liberals break Ontario College Teachers Strike – with hardly a peep from union tops
Victory to the Strikers! More than 12,000 community college faculty, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union, have been making headlines since the start of their province-wide strike October 16. The union is fighting to improve education quality for students…
Teamsters Local 419 represents 700 workers employed by Swissport, a multinational company subcontracted to handle baggage for several airlines at Toronto's Pearson International Airport (YYZ). The workers have been on strike since July 27. Their demands are: wage increases that…
Read More Socialist Action walks in solidarity with striking Pearson International Airport workers
by Stefan Peters-Hnatiuk, At the end of May, the Ontario Liberal government announced “sweeping” labour law reforms, inclining them to bask in the glory of their freshly appropriated “progressive values”, eliciting the ire and indignation of Conservatives, while causing New…
By Joel Harden, CUPE 1281 (Published with permission of rankandfile.ca) At its best, the recent 28th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress demonstrated how far unions have come on Indigenous rights, Palestinian rights (more on that later), racism, queer…
Read More Beyond optics, towards politics: A report back from CLC Convention
