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The Covid-19 pandemic undercut feelings of job security at cultural institutions. Now there’s an uptick in efforts to organize.

Although the Summit was applauded by some, it was boycotted by a wide array of scientists, researchers, food producers and Indigenous groups. So, what actually happened?

A key government official declared that players are actually employees, but the league is still avoiding worker protections – just like gig economy companies around the nation.

Margaret Qualley and her real-life mum Andie MacDowell play mother and daughter in a tender portrait of a young woman struggling to make a life for herself and her child

Amazon tripled its profits during the pandemic while its workers experienced sickness and stress. Workers at the company are fighting back by launching a unionization drive that could reshape Canada’s labor movement.

In the auto industry, where most UAW members work, many are frustrated with years of concessionary contracts that have allowed automakers to build a two-tier workforce, with the number of temporary and lower-paid workers ballooning.

Poet-Teacher Susan Gubernat brings the life—and passion --of Emma Goldman into the 21st Century.

From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.

An essay collection centering on issues facing feminism today, the author calls on the movement to be “relentlessly truth-telling, not least about itself,” focusing on consent, intersectionality, misogyny, gendered violence, and other topics.

The ILA will not work a container ship without a crew aboard. Already one company developing these automated ships also plans for automated loading and unloading of cargo from these crew-less ships without workers.