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OSGOODE WORKERS WIN $15
By Ella Bedard
By March 2018, every person working at Osgoode Hall Law School will be making $15 an hour or more. That makes Osgoode the first major post-secondary academic unit in Ontario to bring its employment practices in line with the demands of the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign (FF15).
Most workers at Osgoode have long made more than $15 an hour. The two glaring exceptions were Juris Doctor student research assistants, and food service workers employed by the subcontractor Aramark Canada Ltd. Read more!
SASKATCHEWAN'S 2017 AUSTERITY BUDGET
By Andrew Stevens and Charles Smith
Saskatchewan's 2017 budget landed with an unenthusiastic thud last week. Riddled with cuts, job losses, public sector wage reductions, and tax increases, the Saskatchewan Party's austerity budget has garnered few friends, with critics ranging from organized labour movement to small businesses. The government's budget has several fiscal goals: aggressively tackle its $1.3-billion deficit in three short years, overhaul the tax structure away from progressive forms of taxation to consumption taxes, and dismantle key aspects of the social welfare state. Read more!
USING THE BARGAINING TABLE TO ADVANCE RACIAL JUSTICE
By Luster Howard, Maricruz Manzanarez, and Seth Newton Patel
Employers often use race to divide workers against one another. At University of California campuses and hospitals, we’re seeing the problem get worse now that President Donald Trump’s administration is unleashing new waves of racism and attacks on immigrants.
Our union, AFSCME 3299, represents 24,000 patient care and service workers. About half of us are Latinos, and a supermajority are people of color. Read more!
BOOK REVIEW - UNION POWER: THE UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
By Gerard Di Trolio
The history contained in the pages of Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania by James Young is an invaluable lesson for those looking to reinvigorate the labour movement today, especially in former industrial areas facing decline.
Union Power tells the history of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Locals 506 and 618 at the General Electric (GE) plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. Read more!
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