On June 28, history was made by aircraft maintenance engineers.  In spite of being the most recent employee group to unionize, they have become the first ever workers to strike in WestJet’s 28-year history. 

More than 9,000 LCBO workers are on strike in Ontario, after years of attacks, in a fight against overwork and privatization

For six months last year, all eyes were on Hollywood—not for the movies they were making, but for what they weren’t making. Hollywood was locked in a labour struggle that brought the $134 billion film and television industry to a dead stop. The WGA strike ended on Sept. 27, the SAG-AFTRA strike on Dec. 5. Now that the dust has settled, we can see what was won, what was lost, and most importantly, how. 

The voting period on the tentative agreement between the Common Front and the CAQ government has begun. Although the government was forced to grant some concessions, this agreement does not put an end to wage erosion. Given the scale of the mobilizations, many workers are rightly asking: what was it all for?

The Liberal gov’t is preparing to intervene to end the strike of 7,400 B.C. port workers. The union must reject binding arbitration and any other attempt to force them back to work.

We say: Don’t back down, strike to win!

Transit workers of CUPE 561 in B.C.’s Fraser Valley area have gone on strike after more than two years without a contract. While they may drive the same buses and wear the same uniforms, workers in the Fraser Valley are paid appallingly little compared to those in other areas throughout B.C. Bus operators in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope, and Mission are paid 32 per cent less than other transit operators in the region and lack a pension plan.

A new chapter in the saga of the Starbucks workers’ union drive is now unfolding. After being hit with a wave of retaliatory firings of union organizers across the U.S. in recent months, workers have responded in kind with a string of walkouts and strikes. In total, there have been at least 55 job actions […]

On June 18, 750 CN Rail signal and communications workers in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2052 went on strike across the country, demanding wages and benefits that keep up with inflation. The original offer that the union rejected involved a pay increase of only eight per cent over three years, with […]

The gracious bosses at Starbucks have decided to grant a wage increase for their “partners” across Canada. Affecting 20,000 workers, this will mean an increase of a dollar above provincial minimum wages, and a six to 10 per cent increase for workers who have been with the company for a year. They’re even giving three […]

15,000 industrial construction workers, organized into the Carpenters District Council of Ontario, have joined 15,000 striking LiUNA members and 7,000 crane operators in a massive, province-wide shutdown against pay cuts. As of May 9, thousands of Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) sector carpenters are on strike across Ontario, after overwhelmingly rejecting an offer that did […]