BREAKING: Workers at EC Montreal Language Centre Join The General Union as staff organize to secure better pay and working hours. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ syndicatgeneral.com/blog/centredel…

Book launch📙🚀 Sep 20 at 7pm in Toronto Join me and Stephanie Ross in conversation with Luke Savage at the Toronto launch of Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers & the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics. Click link for details 👇 fb.me/e/52pQLlrPh #canlab #cdnpoli

From teaching tenses to taking stances: impressed with Montreal’s language teachers taking on multinational with new indie union. Easy parts over. Can they achieve state of affairs better than pre-established options? Yes. Time to prove concept. syndicatgeneral.com/blog/ec-montre…

“Joe Beef group, which includes four Montreal restaurants, lost around 95 per cent of its 100-plus staff over the course of the pandemic. This upheaval prompted a more thoughtful approach to the work environment.” So unified withdrawal of labour led to change?

Join us Feb. 5 @ 2:30pm ET for the latest in our webinar series feat. Maxim Baru What independent union movements tell us about today's marketplace of trade union organization To register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #canlab #unionorganizing #labourstudies

Coming up tomorrow -- Maxim Baru on independent union organizing. Join 2:30pm ET on Zoom, register below. #canlab #unionorganizing #organizing #labourmovement #labormovement

It was a pleasure & a privilege to speak on dynamics in contemporary unionism at Mac Labour Studies webinar series yesterday Thanks to Stephanie Ross, who’s developing the next generation of researchers playing leading roles in organizations representing working people

NDP & Liberal platforms are out. Both appear to lack any commitment to make it easier or more accessible to join or form a union or any proposal to bolster the capacities of unions to engage in effective collective bargaining. ndp.ca/campaign-com... liberal.ca/cstrong/

The elimination of the Minister of Labour portfolio at a time when the future of labour markets, work laws and policy is so uncertain is an act of political malpractice. It symbolizes that a Liberal government is not prioritizing better jobs and new legal regimes for the future.

"The first step for anyone interested in winning back voter support is recognizing the reality of America’s money-driven system once and for all — and then putting forward real reforms to that system, not empty slogans." - Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Chen: ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

#BREAKING: Air Canada union says flight attendants will continue strike, defy government cp24.com/news/canada/20…

“Central bankers predict population ageing will not only lower output but also risks pushing up inflation, as workers would be able to demand higher wages in an environment where labour shortages were widespread.”

Support for unions, collective bargaining might be high in Canada. But a smaller % of Canadians working in the private sector are unionized today than before we had laws protecting collective bargaining. We call that a failure of a labour law model trapped in the 20th century

Canada’s economy is in shambles and the government’s response is to double-down on a wage-suppressing, worker-exploiting program the UN calls a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”

Statement from the Canadian Labour Congress re: new federal tariff/trade related initiatives says "there are still some gaps that need to be addressed" but doesn't mention as one of those "gaps" the absence of measures to make joining a union easier or more accessible. 1/3

Thoughts?