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ONTARIO COLLEGE STRIKE 101

By Chris Grawey, Mohawk College paralegal student

On Monday, October 16, the 12,000 members of OPSEU’s College Academic Division – professors, instructors, librarians, and counsellors at Ontario’s 24 public colleges – hit the picket line after the College Employer Council rejected OPSEU’s final offer on October 15. OPSEU’s membership gave the bargaining committee a 68% strike mandate in September.

The final offer presented by OPSEU’s bargaining committee was a direct response to the Council’s concerns and it includes three central issues. Read more!


CAMI WORKERS STRIKE BUT CAN'T GET GUARANTEE ON JOBS

By Gerard Di Trolio and Doug Nesbitt

As negotiators from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico carry out secretive talks aimed at fixing NAFTA, a strike at an Ontario auto plant shows how difficult it can be to challenge the power amassed by corporations thanks to the trade deal. Read more!


NO CASTING COUCH FOR LOW-WAGE WOMEN, BUT LOTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

By Jane Slaughter

Sexual harassment doesn’t happen just to glamorous women in glamorous industries. Since sexual harassment is about power, not sex, it’s not surprising that low-wage women in lousy jobs get a lot of it. Read more!

PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF MIGRANT LABOUR PROGRAMS...IN THE 60s AND 70s

By Edward Dunsworth

The Thanksgiving season is often seized upon by farmworkers and activists to highlight agricultural workers’ contributions to society and the precarious conditions that so often characterize their work and life. Read more!

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