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We at RankandFile.ca want to thank all our readers and donors for the amazing support you have given us over the years. With your help we have have been able to expand our readership and our coverage. We have hired three part-time labour reporters and have published more original content than ever before.
Our goal at RankandFile.ca is to provide informative news and analysis for workers, to build relationships with workers’ in struggle and to help be a but it also aims to build solidarity for workers in struggle and support the construction of rank-and-file networks.
With that in mind we have two exciting projects that we need your financial help to get off the ground:
1) This July we are going to (re)launch the RankandFile.ca podcast. We will be producing a monthly (hopefully bi-weekly) 30 minute podcast featuring interviews and news stories about the Canadian labour movement. To make this project a reality means having money for website and podcast hosting, equipment and software.
2) In September we are planning to launch a Fight for $15 and Fairness campaigns booklet. This printed booklet would be an organizing toolkit for experienced and new activists alike. The booklet will cover all aspects of the campaign from economic arguments to how to build a local group in your workplace or community. It is being written by people who are involved in the campaign. We need money for printing, copy editing, design and postage (and yes we are going to mail you a copy).
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SEVEN MYTHS ABOUT CANADA POST
By Doug Nesbitt and Dan Darah
With another lockout or strike looming at Canada Post, management is once again relying on huge amounts of public misinformation to turn the people against the postal workers, and sap confidence in our public postal service. Here are seven big myths about Canada Post that you’ll find repeated in the papers and on TV, at the dinner table or on your smoke break, and from politicians and Canada Post management. A version of this list is available as a printable flyer or poster. Read more!
INSIDE OPSEU'S HISTORIC COLLEGE WORKER ORGANIZING DRIVE
By David Bush
OPSEU is in the middle of organizing as many as 17,000 part-time college workers right across Ontario. Currently the Ontario labour movement organizes roughly 3,000 to 5,000 new members a year. This union drive is one the most significant and largest in the history of the province. To learn more about this organizing drive, why it is happening and how it is being organized I spoke with Tracy MacMaster, an OPSEU member and regional coordinator of the union drive. Read more!
QUEBEC NURSING HOME WORKERS STRIKE FOR $15
By Sonia Singh
Thousands of Quebec nursing home workers have walked off the job in their first-ever series of coordinated strikes. They’re demanding that all workers get a starting hourly wage of $15.
It’s a big jump for a workforce where the average wage is $12.50. (Fifteen dollars Canadian is equivalent to about $11.71 in the U.S.)
The 3,000 workers in 32 nursing and retirement homes for the elderly had three days of strikes under their belts already by June 21, when they began an open-ended period of strikes. Read more!
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