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Unionizing during the pandemic
Scott Neigh | Christine Bro and Quentin Rowe-Codner talk about the Unions Are Essential campaign and about a recent successful organizing drive.
News
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Paramedics on Ontario First Nations reserve unanimously agree to unionize
Meagan Gillmore | Paramedics on Beausoleil First Nation's reserve on Christian Island in Ontario have joined the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).
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Multiple union drives reflect turbulence at WestJet
Meagan Gillmore | WestJet employees are working in crowded environments -- and not just airplanes. Several campaigns are underway to organize workers, including customer service representatives and flight attendants.
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OPSEU ramping up efforts to organize contract college instructors
Meagan Gillmore | The summer months are providing little reprieve for staff and representatives at the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work with college instructors.
News
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Justice for Indigenous workers both in the workplace and in the union
Meagan Gillmore | In a paper released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Lynne Fernandez and Jim Silver describe the history of Indigenous people in labour.
News
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Unions prepared to fight for precarious workers, say proposed labour reforms are incomplete
Meagan Gillmore | Ontario introduced changes to the Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act (LRA) on June 1. The proposed changes to labour laws are good, but they won't benefit everyone.
News
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Reality TV workers need collective rights: media union
Meagan Gillmore | Ontario's Changing Workplaces Review doesn't do enough to recommend protections for the collective rights of workers in the reality TV industry, the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) says.
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Media guild organizing for order in 'Wild West' of reality TV
Meagan Gillmore | Workers in reality TV often work in unsafe and unhealthy environments, contributing to professional and personal drama that can rival the action on the shows they create. And, for now, it's legal.
Activist Toolkit
Labour Day
| The first Labour Day in Canada was when workers discovered the power of striking
Columnists
Unifor: Canada's newest union
Jim Stanford | I am still catching my breath from one of the wildest weeks in my life: all the events that culminated in the founding convention last weekend in Toronto of Unifor.
Podcast
Union organizing in Mindanao
Jiselle Hanna and Piergiorgio Moro | Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Terisita Hadman from KMU Philippines about organizing conditions in Mindanao.
News
KFC workers protest outside the chain restaurant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Fighting super-sized corporations: Fast food workers in New York City take strike action
Peter Rugh | Approximately 400 fast food workers across New York City took part in Thursday's day-long strike -- the latest action in the ongoing campaign that is demanding a raise.