Earlier this week, four labor leaders voted against including Medicare for All in the Democratic Party platform — a slap in the face to millions of Americans struggling through an unprecedented pandemic. We need a union movement that fights for all workers, both organized and unorganized.

Bill 32 will have serious impacts on unionized and non-unionized workers, and it will restrict the voices of workers in our democracy. Jason Foster, Associate Professor, Human Resources and Labour Relations at Athabasca University, explains the implications for unionized workers in the first of a two-part blog series. 

Bill 32, which amends both the Labour Relations Code and the Employment Standards Code, will dramatically reduce the bargaining power and legal protections previously enjoyed by working Albertans.

These changes will set off a race to the bottom in terms of wages and workplace rights — at a time when working Albertans are already struggling and can least afford it.

The new regime at Labour Party Central chose its most reliable conduit — the Guardian newspaper — to give advance notice that the party Establishment is keen to pay off the so-called “whistleblowers” among headquarters staff who participated in last year’s Panorama programme on alleged anti-semitism in the party.

In response to the United Conservative Party’s blatant ideological, US-inspired political agenda, here is a back-to-basics post about what a union is, and what it is not.

Jason Kenney is tipping the scales against working Albertans. His new law will reduce worker bargaining power, both in the workplace and on the political stage. Kenney says this about protecting you. But that’s a lie. It’s really about giving himself and his rich friends and donors more power. Here are two ways to stop Kenney’s attack on worker rights.

A review from Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) has found that Cargill did not attempt to engage worker representation as it investigated the circumstances that led to the largest COVID-19 outbreak linked to a single facility in Canada.

Curtis Baht hasn’t been sleeping much.

Since he and his 700 colleagues were locked out of the Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC) on Dec. 5, 2019, Baht has been struggling — struggling with how he can fill his days and struggling to find motivation.

Union is fighting to keep the Cargill plant, site of Canada's largest coronavirus outbreak, closed

A variety of missteps by management at Forest Heights Revera Long-Term Care Home created a pandemic within its walls, a union president says.

The Kitchener home is now the facility with the most COVID-19 cases — 193 among residents and staff — and more than half of the deaths in Waterloo Region.

Locally, 66 people have died of coronavirus, 34 of them at Forest Heights.

Physical distancing while working inside an Amazon warehouse can get tricky, especially since the company still tracks workers' productivity during the pandemic.

The e-commerce giant has hired 1,000 new employees to boost its fulfillment centres and delivery network in Ontario, B.C. and Alberta.

Amazon workers in the Greater Toronto Area say the new hires, especially in the warehouses' narrow aisles and locker rooms, are a big problem.

The issue is one which trade unionists have raised for many years but has been brought into “sharp focus” in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, following complaints from nurses that the PPE they have been wearing for 12.5-hour shifts is “designed and made to fit men”.

Workers, occupational health experts and local officials are warning that a crowded camp housing hundreds of scab workers at the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina is still a potential COVID-19 hot spot and a threat to their community.

All companies—even those with the most enlightened CEOs—are pushed by market competition to prioritize profits above all else. That’s why working-class people can’t ask “good” corporations to save us. We have to save ourselves.

Unifor members at Local 1075 are getting ready to manufacture parts for urgently needed ventilators at the Bombardier plant that usually manufactures bilevel GO Trains, streetcars and subway trains.

By Doug Nesbitt and Andrew Stevens

With near unanimous support from the membership, Unifor Local 594 provided the Co-operative Refinery Complex (CRC) with job action notice on December 4, 2019. The employer immediately responded by locking out over 700 workers – from process operators, buildi

The grassroots group Momentum was an instrumental campaigning force for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party during the 2017 election. Now the group is bigger and stronger, and preparing for victory next month.