On March 24, 2021, members of Workers United Canada Council (WUCC) Local 154 organized an information picket and rally to raise awareness for WoodGreen’s Housing and Homelessness workers’ request for the reinstatement of one to two days per week of remote work during the pandemic. This info picket also raised the demand for pandemic pay […]

Recently, there have been louder and louder calls for paid sick leave to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. These calls are coming from not only the typical representatives of workers’ issues like the NDP, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and public health authorities, but even conservative Toronto mayor John […]

On Tuesday, March 30, the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table sounded the alarm that the pandemic is “completely out of control”. This grim announcement comes as no surprise as health officials have been giving warnings for weeks that Ontario has been at a critical tipping point with new variants projected to spread more rapidly and […]

Early in the month of February residents of 103 and 105 West Lodge, two mega-apartment complexes in Toronto, were informed via memo from Canada Post that mail delivery would be suspended for both buildings due to inadequate safety precautions and a need to protect mail carriers from unsafe work environments. The decision was announced in […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all parts of society and has thrown hundreds of millions out of work globally. However, a closer look reveals that women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Women workers play a key role in health care, child care, elder care, and teaching while experiencing low wages, insecure employment, and domestic and sexual violence—all of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing an already ailing public health system to the brink. Meanwhile, capitalists are taking advantage of the situation to enrich themselves. It is high time to expropriate these private health-care parasites. The health-care system is reaching the breaking point While the peak of the second wave seems to have passed, the […]

The right-wing premiers of Quebec, Ontario and Alberta are empowering non-essential businesses to recall their staff while new COVID-19 variants spread—putting some of the worst paid, least secure workers at enormous risk. While these provinces lead daily COVID-19 case counts, while individual gatherings remain highly restricted and while hospitals remain vulnerable, business, we are told, […]

In July of last year, Alberta’s UCP government announced that Albertan children would be returning to school in person in the fall after having spent the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic learning online. All students and staff were to be provided with two reusable masks for the year to help prevent the spread of the […]

The news of the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines gave millions a reason to hope for a swift end to the pandemic. But these hopes are quickly being dashed as the rollout is beset by countless delays. At the heart of these delays is the profit motive and production for profit inherent to the capitalist system, […]

As people everywhere anxiously wait for doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to become available, and death tolls rise by the day, a Canadian casino tycoon and his actor wife managed to jump to the head of the line.  On Jan. 19, the now former CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, Rodney Baker, and Ekatrina […]