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C-377: A chance for the Senate to prove its worth | Jun 19 2013 | Jim Stanford | Members of the Senate now have a chance to change the conversation from expense accounts, to careful policy debate. Let's see if they can do the right thing and send this bill packing.

Labatt brewery strike escalates as union launches boycott | Jun 19 2013 | Cory Collins | A union representing workers at a Labatt brewery in St. John's has launched a boycott campaign, asking the public to refrain from buying a large number of brands manufactured at the site.

Action Alert: Help defeat Bill C-377 | Jun 19 2013 | Brent Patterson | Take action and send a message to stop Bill C-377 to senators who are debating the bill this week.

Migrant Dreams documentary delves into temporary foreign worker issue | Jun 17 2013 | June Chua | Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams documentary project has a deep connection to her past -- her Korean parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1970s.

Reinventing progressive politics | Jun 17 2013 | Murray Dobbin | The "game" has been designed not to represent the needs of people or communities but to manage capitalism in the interests of the elites.

Kwentong Bayan illustrates the strength of Filipino caregivers to Canada | Jun 17 2013 | MaryCarl Guiao | Through an upcoming comic book, Filipinas who work as live-in caregivers tell their stories and nurture our creativity and awareness about our herstory.

Video: Tough day at work? Watch the office battle! | Jun 15 2013 | rabble staff | Tough day at work? You're not in it alone. FixMyJob.com can help you fix your workplace problems.

Towards a new model for worker organizing: The Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal | Jun 12 2013 | Scott Neigh | Organizer Mostafa Henaway reflects on how workers' centres can help the labour movement adapt to a world of increasingly precarious work and the erosion of mainstream union power.

Why Canada Post should be expanding services | Jun 12 2013 | Mike Palecek | Canada Post has been floating ideas about cutting door-to-door delivery in favour of community mailboxes, or even moving to alternate-day delivery.

Steelworkers rally against Harper's low-wage, anti-worker agenda | Jun 10 2013 | John Bonnar | On a rainy Monday morning, the United Steelworkers and their allies held a rally to protest the Conservative government’s low-wage, anti-worker agenda.

This Week on Media Mornings: June 8—Kinnie Starr, Tiananmen Anniversary, CUPE’s Paul Moist on FCM, Canada-EU trade | Jun 10 2013 | This Week on Media Mornings | This week's top interviews: Kinnie Starr, Tienanmen anniversary, CUPE's Paul Moist on FCM, and the Canada-EU trade deal.

NDP MPP's bill to protect child performers passes second reading | Jun 8 2013 | John Bonnar | Bill 71, The Protecting Child Performers ACT, was introduced by NDP MPP Paul Miller, passed First Reading on May 15 and has now been referred to the Standing Committee on General Government.

Unifor: A principled and inclusive new Canadian union for changing times | Jun 7 2013 | Dave Coles, Ken Lewenza | Unifor is strong, principled, and inclusive. New membership approaches will redefine who can be a union member and radically change the trade union landscape.

Another salvo in Conservative government's war against working people: Bill C-525 | Jun 7 2013 | Dave Coles | Conservative backbencher Blaine Calkins unveiled a private members bill that will make it far harder to form a new union and much easier to decertify an existing one.

Avoiding the shaft: No concessions for young workers | Jun 6 2013 | Nora Loreto | Is a 32 per cent pay cut a victory?

Events

Vancouver

June 19, 2013 - 5:30pm

Commemorate labour history: 75th anniversary of Vancouver's Bloody Sunday

Simcoe

June 21, 2013 - 1:00pm

Rally outside Diane Finley's office

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Temporary labour impoverishes, injures, kills | lagatta said... It is ghastly, and a killer. Of course nowadays it doesn't only concern manual labour - though that...

temp workers/intra company transfers | jerrym said... CBC News has interviewed Canadian workers who describe how multinational outsourcing companies...

Garment factory collapse in Bangladesh | lagatta said... Horrible. Another: http://www.industriall-union.org/bangladeshi-garment-workers-crushed-to-......

NDP Socialist Caucus Presents Spring 2013 Edition of Turn Left/Virez a gauche | kropotkin1951 said... Nice painting of Queneesh in the K'ómoks First Nation's territory. Whose art work is that? in

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Unfit for work: the startling rise of disability in America | 6079_Smith_W said... Interesting; I like the doctor's rule of thumb, though I expect he might amend it for degrees that...

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The February Strike -- Netherlands, 25 February 1941 | NorthReport said... Interesting - thanks Catchfire. in

How the Left has won | KenS said... huh, sleep walking to the workers paradise. does the New Jerusalem have therapists for...

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