Tribune | Rachel Reeves’ plans to slash public spending and investment on the basis that Britain is ‘broke’ is a rehash of the exact rhetoric that gave us 14 years of Tory austerity.

Tribune | The Labour Party reportedly agreed not to introduce media reforms in exchange for Rupert Murdoch’s backing — ensuring that the corrosive role that media elites play in our country will continue with impunity under a Starmer government.

Canadian Dimension | With the Conservatives headed into disintegration or irrelevance, the incoming Labour government may prove the penultimate stage in the collapse of the UK political establishment. The brightness of its success in fashioning Starmer’s Labour into its instrument is the gaseous brilliance of the supernova, the efflorescence that precedes a star’s death.

The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Piraeus Port in Greece on Saturday 15 June led to the cancellation of the the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to Israel.

Tribune | Keir Starmer claims that Labour is now ‘pro-business and pro-worker’, but the order of these priorities is no coincidence. Yesterday’s manifesto confirmed that the interests of big business and the wealthy will come first under a Labour government.

The Maple | The managers’ association sought a ruling that excluding them from collective bargaining infringed their rights to free association.

Tribune | The fascist surge across the European Union is directly down to the bankruptcy of centrist politicians — whose failure in addressing soaring inequalities and deep social problems should haunt Starmer's Labour.

Labor Notes | For three and a half decades, lean management drove the production and movement of goods. But now logistics and manufacturing employers are shifting to a new model. To maximize our leverage, workers should understand it.

Tribune | On the same day that climate scientists announced the world had breached the warming limit of 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, Starmer effectively announced that he had given up the fight against climate breakdown.

People's World | The British Labour Party will recognize a Palestinian state when it gets permission from Israel to do so, party leader Sir Keir Starmer has announced in his latest abandonment of progressive international commitments.

If a company such as Amazon wants to do business in Canada, shouldn’t it recognize the value of its own workers?

One Uber Eats courier says it’s ‘employee or bust’ — but at least one union leader wonders if compromising might work better.

Grace Blakely | Keir Starmer’s speech today was an opportunity to present a bold alternative to growing inequality under the Tories – it failed spectacularly.

Cargill runs Canada’s biggest meatpacking facility and obliged its workers to come in despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the company is facing a criminal investigation — the first of its kind — after the sadly predictable deaths of workers and their family members.

Corbyn can’t seem to grasp, at least not publicly, that aside from what his opponents outside the party, such as the fetid Murdoch media, get up to, there are those within— its Blairite remnant and its pro-Zionist bloc —who will do everything they can to destroy him and his supporters politically. No amount of soft-pedalling on Corbyn’s part will change their minds.

If Labour is to challenge the Tory vision of society, it must challenge the Tory vision of the economy – and that begins by tackling the dominant idea that the market is efficient while public spending is wasteful.

AS INCREASING numbers of Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) defy the ban on discussion of Jeremy Corbyn’s removal from the parliamentary party, the number of suspensions grows too.
The party leadership are prepared for purges on an extraordinary scale: deputy leader Angela Rayner talked at the weekend of suspending “thousands and thousands” of members.

The Manitoba government is being accused of undermining public sector unions as it attempts to make it easier for employers to fire striking workers and for workers to dismantle their union representation.

“Today is a great day for our members at Nemak who spent months waiting patiently for the court to rule on the future of their jobs at the Windsor Aluminum Plant,” Jerry Dias, Unifor National President, said in a Wednesday announcement. “This is precisely the outcome our union and our members were fighting for and the ruling could not be any more clear—when you have a collective agreement with workers you have to live up to its terms.”

Parking lots at Dominion Stores in Newfoundland were empty Sunday.

In Mount Pearl, at the Old Placentia Road location, workers holding “On Strike” signs and waving Unifor flags blocked all entrances to the grocery store.

“The members have spoken. They want to make it clear to their employer that they want to be treated with respect, decent jobs and good wages,” said Unifor Local 597 President Carolyn Wrice.

The union represents more than 1,400 Dominion workers at 11 locations across Newfoundland, from St. John’s to Stephenville.