ur, who preferred to remain anonymous, worked as a field organizer for the largest public service union in the United States, before becoming a teacher in a large urban area. He is now organizing with colleagues and students around issues related to the accessibility of education and obtaining driving licenses for undocumented migrants..
Rasmus Hästbacka and Kristian Falk, of the Swedish trade union SAC (Swedish Workers' Central Organization, or Central Organization of Workers of Sweden), argue for a third way between the “consensual fundamentalism” of Sweden’s dominant union bureaucracy and the “idealization” of rank-and-file strikes: we have to relearn how to put pressure on our places […]
Revolted! In front of the bosses who refuse to give us a living wage! In front of the owners who seize a social right in order to enrich themselves! In front of governments that see migrants as fraudsters!
Marianne Garneau presents the development of the IWW's unique training program and its innovative approach to union organizing.
As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc, un constat amer s’impose : bosses, propriétaires et politiciens en profitent pour écraser un peu plus les travailleuses et travailleurs dits essentiels, les locataires et la classe ouvrière en général. Si des mesures ont été mises en place temporairement pour éviter une crise économique catastrophique, avec les […]
During a press conference on Thursday 29 October, the general manager of Mission Bon Accueil, Sam Watts, answered roughly this to a reporter asking how the community was going to resist the second wave if its workers are already out of breath : "Yes but not […]
At the time of this writing, The Globe and Mail just unveiled that the federal government was drafting a bill to punish "fraudsters" on the Canada Emergency Benefit, the famous ECP set up to help the millions of people suddenly finding themselves unemployed with the pandemic. Probably the amounts and […]
May 1 reflection 2020 on the rise of entrepreneurial management in the community environment and its consequences The mechanisms specific to entrepreneurial management seem to plague the community environment which seemed to us not so long ago by and for the community, but also sheltered from the entrepreneurial ideology. This is the case of […]
If for two or three short weeks, the federal and provincial governments have announced and put in place certain measures to help (partially) to workers, unemployed, so as to promote containment, Legault's latest press conferences point to the end of the honeymoon. That was to be expected, business as usual, […]
MONTRÉAL, the 30 mars 2020 – The crisis coronavirus hit us hard and as usual in these difficult times, the first to pay the price were workers. Only a week after the start of social distancing measures, on dénombrait plus d’un million de nouvelles chômeuses et […]