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rabble series
July 19
Karl Nerenberg
| NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton describes herself as an intersectional feminist -- and as the candidate of youth and of the left. |
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rabble news
July 17
Meagan Gillmore
| Slot machine workers at the OLG Woodbine Racetrack have been locked out. The lockout began on July 14, after the OLG and the Public Service Alliance of Canada failed to agree on a new contract. |
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rabble news
July 14
Meagan Gillmore
| The union representing workers at the University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) says recent layoffs violate the collective bargaining agreement and put students' services at risk. |
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rabble news
July 14
Meagan Gillmore
| Manitoba unions have filed an injunction to stop a recently passed law that would freeze public service employees' wages, saying it violates their constitutional right to freedom of association. |
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politics
July 14
Karl Nerenberg
| It has been a long time since the Canadian labour movement has had the opportunity to applaud the actions of a Canadian federal government. And yet recently the Canadian Labour Congress did just that. |
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rabble series
July 12
Karl Nerenberg
| NDP MP Guy Caron has two distinct advantages in the party's leadership race: he is the only Quebecer in the race and the only one who can lay claim to being a professional economist. |
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rabble news
July 10
Steve Price-Thomas
| The G20 meeting wrapped up in Hamburg on Saturday evening with only incremental changes planned to address the world's most pressing problems. |
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arts/media
July 7
Helene Vosters, Elizabeth Littlejohn
| Stitch-by-Stitch's Unsettling Canada Day Sewing Circle was held in solidarity with Unsettling Canada 150 National Day of Action by Idle No More and Defenders of the Land. |
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rabble news
July 7
Meagan Gillmore
| A tentative agreement has been reached between slot machine workers at Woodbine Raceway in Toronto and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. Members will vote on the agreement this weekend. |
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rabble news
July 6
Steve Price-Thomas
| This is a time for seriousness and substantial answers to huge problems. Can the G20 come up with any of them? |
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rabble series
July 5
Karl Nerenberg
| Charlie Angus is perhaps best known as a passionate and articulate advocate in Parliament for Indigenous people. He wants to create a discourse that will cross the many lines of division in Canada. |
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rabble news
July 4
Meagan Gillmore
| The summer months are providing little reprieve for staff and representatives at the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work with college instructors. |
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rabble news
June 30
Meagan Gillmore
| A new report from CUPE details problems with scheduling, overwork, and patient care experienced by medical technicians. |
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in their own words
June 30
Albert Dumont
| On June 23, Algonquin elders took part in the Faith is Peace walk from Victoria Island to Parliament Hill, joined by the region's faith leaders in support of the struggle for sacred Akikodjiwan. |
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politics
June 23
Meagan Gillmore
| NDP leadership candidates reinforced their commitment to workers and the labour movement at a debate hosted by the United Steelworkers in Toronto on Thursday night. |
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politics
June 23
Karl Nerenberg
| Is the Trudeau government merely Harper-lite or is it a beacon of democratic, humanistic internationalism? Based on its record this past year, and at the mid point in its mandate, it is neither. |
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rabble news
June 21
Meagan Gillmore
| In a paper released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Lynne Fernandez and Jim Silver describe the history of Indigenous people in labour. |
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rabble news
June 20
Meagan Gillmore
| The Ontario government's recently announced strategy to increase employment of people with disabilities lacks concrete details about how to meet the complex problem, disability advocates say. |
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politics
June 19
Karl Nerenberg
| A year ago, the Trudeau Liberals were still new to power, and yet they seemed to be slipping into the arrogant habits for which they had fervently criticized their Conservative predecessors. |
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rabble news
June 15
Meagan Gillmore
| The federal government's recently announced national child-care framework is a far cry from the kind of universal child care that PSAC, and many other unions, want the government to establish. |
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rabble news
June 13
Heryka Miranda
| Volunteers from the Migrant Worker Summer festival speak to the need for mobile clinics and culturally sensitive care for seasonal workers. |
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rabble news
June 12
Meagan Gillmore
| Manitoba's labour leaders are pushing back against new legislation they say drastically reduces workers' rights and puts Manitobans' health care at risk. |
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rabble news
June 12
Heryka Miranda
| The Migrant Worker Summer Festival brings together farm workers and community members in the Niagara Region. |
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rabble news
June 9
Karl Nerenberg
| If nothing else, Thursday's U.K. election proves that it is not electoral poison for a party and a leader to take a clear, left-of-centre stance, one that includes expansion of social benefits. |
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rabble news
June 8
Meagan Gillmore
| A 2014 study found that a third of respondents had experienced domestic violence. Of those, more than half said they'd experienced it at or near their workplaces. |
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rabble news
June 2
Meagan Gillmore
| Ontario introduced changes to the Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act (LRA) on June 1. The proposed changes to labour laws are good, but they won't benefit everyone. |
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in their own words
June 2
Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto
| Depending on how one sees it, this is a critical moment in the decolonization and survival of Turtle Island or a re-containment of Indigenous people in the state apparatus of Canada 150, or both. |
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rabble news
May 31
Meagan Gillmore
| Businesses have nothing to fear about the government's proposal to hike minimum wage to $15 an hour, say some Ontario small businesses and worker advocates. |
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rabble news
May 29
Meagan Gillmore
| Ontario's Changing Workplaces Review doesn't do enough to recommend protections for the collective rights of workers in the reality TV industry, the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) says. |
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rabble news
May 25
Meagan Gillmore
| Workers in reality TV often work in unsafe and unhealthy environments, contributing to professional and personal drama that can rival the action on the shows they create. And, for now, it's legal. |
