Mohamed Yusuf left his home in Ottawa’s Heron Gate community in October 2018, following about four months of organizing with…
Shared Risk? OMERS indexing dispute fits pattern of attacks
The Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System (OMERS) Sponsors Corporation Board of Directors will be voting on whether or not to…
Abandoned and Disposable An: Agricultural Worker Speaks Out
“We feel discriminated [against], abandoned and disposable. For the company, [it’s] very easy to get rid of us, but at…
Union drive at WeedMD takes another twist
An effort to unionize workers at Ontario cannabis company WeedMD just got more complicated for the labour movement. The United…
Essential but precarious: Toronto bike couriers fight for a union
Since Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced restaurants would stay open for takeout and delivery during the COVID19 pandemic, bicycle couriers…
Breaking bread & movement building
“I want to help people who look like me, I always tell women, get involved in the labour movement. We’ll…
The case for a human rights response to homeless encampments
Haseena Manek and Leilani Farha A pattern is emerging. For two years running, the month of January has triggered the…
Ontario teachers begin one-day strike against Ford’s cuts
Today, members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) walk off the job to protest ongoing attacks to the…
Ontario’s education workers inch closer to strike position
Last week, negotiations between the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ (CUPE) bargaining agent the Ontario School Board Council of Union…
Bargaining stalled for Ontario’s education workers
On July 31, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) filed for conciliation after 10 days of bargaining with the…
