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IN SOLIDARITY WITH COLONIALISM NO MORE: A PLACE FOR LABOUR IN ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLES
By Denise Leduc
For three months, Colonialism No More activists in Treaty Four territory have maintained a solidarity camp outside the Regina offices of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). In fact Tuesday marked 100 days of protest outside of INAC. The camp setup in April as one of a handful of occupations that emerged across the country after NDP MP, Charlie Angus brought public attention to the high rates of suicides in Attawpiskat, Ontario. Only the Regina camp remains. The demands of the movement have broadened to include the development of a publicly accessible database on conditions experienced by First Nations in Saskatchewan, a remedy to the situation facing Indigenous children who are forced into state care, and for the Treaties to be respected and upheld. Most importantly perhaps, the Camp wants to see the Indian Act abolished. Read more!
BC NURSES' UNION EMPLOYEE LOCKOUT TURNS INTO STRIKE
By Daniel Tseghay
On July 21st, the BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) planned to lockout out their employees, who are members of MoveUP, first thing the following morning. Locking them out would effectively dissolve the standing collective agreement.
At 10 am on July 22, 2016, BCNU ordered their employees back to work, forcing them work under their final offer. “Here we have an employer that’s a union and presumably knows how to bargain collective agreements,” said David Black, president of MoveUP, in an interview with Rankandfile. Read more!
"A LABOUR OF LIBERATION": AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR BAIJAYANTA MUKHOPADHYAY, PART 2
By Andrew Stevens
Providing care to the sick is one of the most universal labours that exists across human societies. How do we understand the work that goes into this vital collective task? How do we arrange different forms of caregiving labour? How do we decide what forms of labour remain informal and unregulated, while others remains more controlled and institutionalised? What has led to the way we prioritise and the way we value caregiving labour types? Read more!
POSTAL WORKERS CONFRONT CANADA POST: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES IN 2016
By Evert Hoogers, Donald Swartz, Rosemary Warskett
A major confrontation is in the making at Canada Post. On the one hand, post office management is seeking to extract a series of far ranging concessions from its workers. On the other, those workers and their union, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), are not simply prepared to resist these demands, but are determined to use the opportunity to negotiate a new collective agreement to pursue an agenda that advances equality within the workplace and the expansion and renewal of vital public services. Read more!
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