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Viva Con! Hasta la Victoria Siempre con Conrad – putting the 'cross' back in Crossharbour! | May 23 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | So irascible has become Lord Black's incessant columnizing that one keeps expecting him to heap vitriol on restaurants too dimly lit to read the menu.

Tim Hudak looks to import anti-union politics from south of the border | May 22 2013 | Dave Coles | While Hudak claims to be promoting "worker choice,” attacking unions' financial security is designed to weaken a civil society critic and empower big business.

Thousands join New Union Project telephone town hall meeting | May 22 2013 | John Bonnar | On Wednesday evening, nearly 13,000 CAW and CEP members joined a telephone town hall meeting to find out more about the CAW/CEP New Union Project.

This Week on Media Mornings: Vol 12 (May 18) | May 18 2013 | This Week on Media Mornings | BC election post-mortem: Éric Grenier (threehundredeight.com), Gurpreet Singh (Radio India), Grand Chief Stewart Phillip (UBCIC). Plus Jen Moore (MiningWatch) on Canadian mining abuses

Hong Kong dock workers win: Analysis of the dispute | May 18 2013 | Diana Beaumont, Pier Moro and Jiselle Hanna | Interview with Au Loong Yu, editor of the China Labour Net website, who provided an analysis of the outcome of the Hong Kong dockworkers' strike and the broader political context.

Review: Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest -- Temporary foreign workers in Canada | May 16 2013 | Daniel Tseghay | Over the past decade, the Canadian economy has become increasingly dependent upon exploited temporary foreign workers, in large part through the Canadian government’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Prog

Who leaked the Alberta government's response to AUPE's complaint, and why? | May 15 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | It is reasonable to conclude that the leak of the Alberta government's response to a formal union complaint was a gesture of bad faith. It is possible to conclude it was an act of sabotage.

Venezuela's new labour law: The best Mother's Day gift | May 15 2013 | Thomas Ponniah | Venezuela's government announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week.

On the abuse of language: Saskatchewan's Bill 85 and 'modernizing' labour relations | May 14 2013 | Simon Enoch | This isn't the modernization of labour relations -- it's a return to the past when workers enjoyed less protections, less rights, and less power in the workplace.

Open letter to Ontario NDP and Liberals: Working together is first step in addressing poverty | May 14 2013 | Brent Hawkes, Buzz Hargrove | We are asking the NDP and the Liberals to co-operate and pass the budget (possibility with some tweaking). However we are frankly asking for much more.

Canadian workers' rights: It's a question of fairness | May 13 2013 | Doug Macpherson, Retiree Matters | As retirees, during our working lives, we fought hard and long with our unions for the wages and benefits workers enjoy today, a fair share of the richness of Canada.

Youth still stuck in the recession | May 13 2013 | Angella MacEwen | For youth 15-24, the unemployment rate was up from last April -- to 20.9 per cent -- so more than 1 in 5 youth are looking for work and can't find it.

Video: Chicago workers open new cooperative factory five years after Republic Windows occupation | May 13 2013 | rabble staff | Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and operated business.

Christy Clark's excuses for child labour in B.C. defy logic and good public policy | May 13 2013 | Helesia Luke | Christy Clark displays a betrays a narrow, middle-class, perspective that imagines child labour is about 'pocket money' and 'learning responsibility.'

Negotiating with Alberta's PC government? Better bring witnesses! | May 11 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The Alberta government came right out in a statement of claim to the Labour Relations Board and called the president of the jail guards' union a liar. Then someone leaked it to a local newspaper.

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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

a response to Meghan Murphy's Mar 27 'prostituted women' / Nordic model article | Catchfire said... Hi fluidity, thanks for posting. Just for the record, comments are allowed on Murphy's blog post....

Why can't you do your taxes quickly and for free? | Fidel said... Apparently UFile s/w is free for families whose incomes are $20,000 or less. NETFILE or print...

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...

"We need to face up to hatred of prostitutes – among feminists, too " | jas said... susan davis wrote: Magnanti reminded us of Julie Burchill's observation in her 1987 essay "Born...

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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