Prison Workers Deserve The Labour Movement’s Support
An interview with Jordan House and Asaf Rashid, the authors of a new book exploring the fight for labour rights within Canadian prisons.
Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba.
An interview with Jordan House and Asaf Rashid, the authors of a new book exploring the fight for labour rights within Canadian prisons.
The Supreme Court is trying to aid corporations in handicapping unions in a time of growing support for organized labour.
This fight represents a window of opportunity to increase worker autonomy, expand union rights and protect health and safety.
The entire post-pandemic economic recovery and its abandonment has been an abject lesson about the rot of contemporary capitalism.
It’s safe to say that hopes for a revitalized labour movement in 2023 are aspirational at this point.
We should celebrate the relative success of the CERB and the other individual support programs, and learn from them going forward.
If Canada’s long-term decline in union density is to be reversed, a combination of new organizing and legislative reform will be needed.
However, as is becoming increasingly obvious, lasting labour victories require mass mobilization, not dependence on the courts.
This month, nearly all workers at a Loblaw distribution warehouse in Calgary received layoff notices amid failed contract talks.