Partner Organizations
Canadian Labour Institute
STRIKING DIFFERENCE
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WORKERS KNOW THEY ARE THEIR OWN BEST FRIENDS. That’s why they go on strike, says Jane McAlevey. That’s why 49,000 UAW (United Autoworkers Union) members went on strike September 16, she says.
“Workers learn to strike and have the confidence to strike by watching other workers strike and win,” says McAlevey, a union organizer, author, and scholar at the...
Lethal lies
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Glad to be alive: Matthew Linnitt with his two sons
MATTHEW LINNITT HAD TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE AND LIE ABOUT IT. It was the only way he could save himself and his job.
Matthew was working on an oil well in northwestern Alberta in May 2016. He was left alone. He shouldn’t have been. He thought the well was properly capped. It wasn’t. A geyser of toxic sour gas spewed out of the well. He searched for the site’s emergency...
SIMPLY CRIMINAL
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Sam Fitzpatrick
SAM FITZPATRICK’S COMPLAINTS DIDN’T SAVE HIM. Sam was killed on the job on February 22, 2009. He was crushed to death under a huge bolder. He had warned his bosses something like that might happen just the day before.
It took a twenty year fight to get his employer into court to answer...
This month in labour rights history
The International Labour Organization celebrates the 60th anniversary of Convention No. 98 on Collective Bargaining and the Right to Organize. Canada remains one of only 23 countries in the world more...
October 12, 2009