Tagged Labour

Militancy, “negative solidarity,” and fighting to win in Saskatchewan and Canada’s labour movement

Saskatchewan's freezing evictions and Trudeau's promising $2,000 to laid-off workers. But activists are calling for cancelling rent and more protections for workers.

City council voted to restrict body rub parlours to industrial areas, citing safety as a reason. But some workers say the decision will make their work more dangerous.

After Unifor National president Jerry Dias was arrested on the Refinery Co-op picket line, the president of the Canadian Labour Congress flew in to support locked-out Unifor 594 members. It comes almost exactly two years after a bitter split, when Unifor disaffiliated from the CLC.

The Co-op was founded on principles of equality and solidarity. But now workers and members say management is trying to run it “like a corporation.” How did we get here?

Support workers at the University of Saskatchewan continue to bargain to keep their pensions and increase pay. Meanwhile, a collective agreement was reached in April between the University of Regina and the University of Regina Faculty Association (URFA).

Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there's hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.