Portside

Founded in 1964, the CAIMAW was a militant trade union, committed to international solidarity, that pushed the Canadian labour movement into progressive places …. even if that progress came at the cost of significant animosity.

The auto industry negotiations UAW and Unifor are engaged in are distinct and complex. Ultimately, autoworkers in Canada and the US are fighting for the same things: fairness, job security, and respect after the sacrifices of the last brutal years.

An alarming number of commentators are grafting their ideological purity on the situation. But the final settlement was nit Biden’s fault, nor the fault of the two political parties. It’s Rail Labor leadership’s fault.

When is a lockout a strike? When corporate media says so. The corporate media will always defer to corporate interests because those are the interests that pay its bill. As a result, labour concerns are usually either downplayed or ignored. 

Dependence on profit-dominated private corporations comes with hard-hearted limits and permanent insecurity.

“If collective bargaining is undermined in Canada, and the right to strike is part of their collective bargaining rights, our collective bargaining rights are also under attack in the United States”