The mobilization of the dockers at the Port of Montreal is reaching a critical point. With the strike only beginning, the Trudeau Liberals, with the full support of the CAQ at the provincial level, are moving to take away the democratic right to strike. We cannot let another strike be crushed through the use of […]

Public anger at Premier Doug Ford has reached boiling point over his government’s gross mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anti-worker policies of Ford, keeping dangerous workplaces open and refusing to legislate paid sick days, directly fed the third wave and are now dragging Ontario into the abyss. Hospitals and health-care workers are overwhelmed as […]

The international spotlight put on the small town of Bessemer, Alabama, is a reminder that the class struggle is alive and well in the citadel of world capitalism. From Italy to Myanmar, millions have watched as the world’s third-largest company faced off against its workers at the Bessemer warehouse, which employs nearly 6,000 workers. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store […]

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 […]

After a six week lockout that started on Feb. 20, just more than half of the Canadian Union of Brewery and General Workers Local 325 members voted to ratify a new contract with Molson company. The deal was approved this past Saturday and Sunday, with a close vote of 149 (56 per cent) voting to […]

On Monday, March 15, 268 workers at the Coca-Cola Refreshments plant in northeast Calgary, Alberta, organized with Teamsters Local Union 987, went out on strike. This was announced in a release by Teamsters 987, whose members at the plant work in the warehouse, production, shipping, and equipment service.  Workers have lost job hours to third-party, […]

This past February in Ontario, there were three separate lockouts of workers, all within the span of eight days and all of which are still ongoing. Workers at the Fenner Dunlop facility in Bracebridge were locked out on Feb. 14, Security officers at the Elements Casino Flamboro were locked out on Feb. 18, and finally, […]

In response to a mining development in Nunavut, Inuit hunters fought back by blockading the Baffinland airstrip and mine access road. This was in response to the company attempting to steamroll the project forward in spite of widespread concerns over the expansion. In an amazing sign of solidarity, a group of employees stranded by this […]

In late January, Marathon oil refinery workers in St. Paul Park, MN called a 24-hour strike in response to the company’s contract proposal, which would subcontract certain union jobs to the lowest-bidding non-union companies. Marathon retaliated by locking the workers out despite their being willing to return to work. These workers have now been on the picket […]