The Atikamekw people form a multimillennial, whose community of some 12 000 population is divided into three villages (Wemotaci, Without et Opitci), located north of La Tuque. Since the beginning of summer, members of the three communities have traveled the canoe country to better take ownership and reconnect with their roots. […]
Wednesday February 28th, the Montreal branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (SITT-IWW) started a picket line in front of the distribution centre Heritage Coffee, situated at 5715 chemin Saint-François in Saint-Laurent. This picket line follows the firing of two workers, members of the SITT-IWW, for union organizing. A lot of members called […]
Wednesday 28 February, the Montreal section of the Industrial Workers Union and Workers (SITT-IWW) started a picketing the distribution center Café Heritage, located at 5715 chemin Saint-Francois in St. Laurent. This post follows the returns of two workers, membres you SIT-IWW, for union. Several members had already called […]
For the issuance of Direct Action devoted to May 1, International Day of Workers, I decided to tell you about the false friends of the working class. More precisely, I decided to tell you about a particular person, which is also the exponent of current social capitalism in Quebec, and I named Alexander […]
A portrait of the industry of treeplanting While it used to be a dignified and respectable way to earn your life, treeplanting is now nothing but a way to live counter-culture for wanderers and students who seek an alternative to the minimum wage. Nowadays, the possibility of escaping the threshold of poverty is only attainable […]
Portrait of Treeplanting industry Formerly a way to live a respectable and dignified life, the Treeplanting is more than a place to live a lifestyle against-cultural and vagrants wandering between and among students seeking an alternative to the minimum wage. Today, the possibility of exceeding the threshold of poverty is reserved only best-es […]
Hello everyone! I want to share with you a small victory "Reclaim Your Payroll" that happened some time ago, because these victories, there are equally important. Sometimes, must make do with what we have, and even if there are not many, we CAN do something […]
Fruit harvest in British Columbia: un empleo precario Ya sea en el Vallé del Okanagan o en otro lugar, the world of fruit picking is unique and particularly difficult to manage for workers. Whether by car, hitchhiked, by plane or bus, cada año centenas de […]
It's no surprise that we learned last Wednesday, the 7 February, that the Government of Quebec is abandoning the idea of granting a fourth week of vacation to employees with more than 10 years of. Le projet de loi qui ne devait être déposé qu’en mars fut donc tué dans l’oeuf par les représentants du patronat qui hurlèrent […]
Fruit picking in British-Columbia : a precarious job Whether in Okanagan’s valley or elsewhere, the world of fruit picking is a unique one and particularly difficult to deal with as workers. Be it by car, hitchiking, by plane or by bus, every year hundreds of Quebecers and other people from different places travel from coast […]