Socialist ProjectNov 5
The #WSIB “Surplus”: A Political Slush Fund #OntPoli #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2025/11/wsib-surplus-political-slush-fund/
The WSIB “Surplus”: A Political Slush Fund – Socialist Project

The corporate lobby is misleading the public when it suggests that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario is over-funded and that the money should be “returned” to business. Why? Because injured workers have been under-compensated by the WSIB in the billions of dollars. When “times are tough”…

Socialist ProjectApr 7, 2025
How #Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2025/04/how-amazon-workers-can-organise-globally/
How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally – Socialist Project

When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only needs to look at the pictures of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos mingling with his fellow centi-billionaires at Trump’s inauguration to…

Socialist ProjectMar 14, 2025
Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers #CdnPoli #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2025/03/trumps-trade-war-and-canadian-workers/
Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers – Socialist Project

The 25% tariffs imposed on exports from Canada and Mexico by the US administration of Donald Trump effective March 4 (with an exception of 10% tariffs for Canadian oil and gas and potash) constitutes an aggressive attack on the livelihoods of Canadian working people and a threat to the survival…

Socialist ProjectMar 14, 2024
3000 graduate assistants, teaching assistants and contract faculty (#CUPE3903) at York University have been on strike since February 26, 2024. A police intervention at the picket line on March 4 has ignited concerns about labour rights and safety. Desmond Cole reports for 'Yes Everything!' #Strike #LaborPoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMm62XCPzW8
Whose streets? Pickets and police at York University

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Socialist ProjectSep 17, 2023
Protect the right to #Strike #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed-video/protect-the-right-to-strike/
Protect The Right To Strike - LeftStreamed

This video is about union rights and in particular the right to strike. Unions have fought to have this right embedded in the Canadian Charter of Rights.

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Socialist ProjectSep 7, 2023
The UPS Agreement in its ‘Concrete Context and Outcomes’: A Response to a Response #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2023/09/ups-agreement-concrete-context-outcomes/
The UPS Agreement in its ‘Concrete Context and Outcomes’ - The Bullet

In an earlier discussion of the recent Teamster-UPS Agreement, I decried the generally uncritical cheerleading of the agreement and cited Barry Eidlin as

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Socialist ProjectSep 7, 2023
The UPS Agreement in its ‘Concrete Context and Outcomes’: A Response to a Response #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2023/09/ups-agreement-concrete-context-outcomes/
The UPS Agreement in its ‘Concrete Context and Outcomes’ - The Bullet

In an earlier discussion of the recent Teamster-UPS Agreement, I decried the generally uncritical cheerleading of the agreement and cited Barry Eidlin as

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Socialist ProjectJul 16, 2023
Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Wage #LaborPoli https://socialistproject.ca/2023/07/hollywood-executives-bring-industry-to-halt-rather-than-pay-workers-fair-wage/
Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Wage - The Bullet

Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry.

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Socialist ProjectJul 12, 2023
Nurses Rising Up To Demand Action to Fix Health Worker Crisis #LaborPoli #Healthcare https://socialistproject.ca/2023/07/nurses-rising-up-to-demand-action-to-fix-health-worker-crisis/
Nurses Rising Up To Demand Action to Fix Health Worker Crisis - The Bullet

As the Council of the Federation meets this week in Winnipeg on the future of Canada’s public healthcare systems, nurses are looking to the premiers for

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Socialist ProjectApr 25, 2023
TV Writers Flex Their Union Power #LaborPoli #Labor https://socialistproject.ca/2023/04/tv-writers-flex-their-union-power/
TV Writers Flex Their Union Power - The Bullet

A strike authorization by the Writers Guild of America is threatening the television industry’s corporate business model of relying on an underpaid workforce to pay for its mergers.

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