The Ontario government and the province's teacher unions are about to enter a round of collective bargaining. Here's what you need to know as negotiations get underway, featuring commentary by @profsavage.bsky.social & @stephross.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/shorts/DNgrK... #onted #canlab #onpoli

What you need to know as Ontario teachers negotiate their contracts

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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Manitoba for this year's annual conference! Mark your calendars for next year's conference to be held Jun 2-4, 2027 at Brock University in Ontario's Niagara Region. #canlab #LabourStudies

Join @stephross.bsky.social and Rob Kristofferson, as well as Toronto-based contributors, for the Toronto launch of The Art of Solidarity! This event is hosted by the Toronto Workers' History Project and Mayworks Toronto. Find more details here: btlbooks.com/events/view/...

Art of Solidarity: Toronto Book Launch

From the organizers: “In-Person Book Launch, with Stephanie Ross, Rob Kristofferson, and other contributors to the book. Wednesday, October 29th at 7 PM Location: Workers Action Centre (WAC) ?720 Spad...

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CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table. ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #aircanadaflightattendants

Air Canada strike updates: Airline, flight attendants in negotiations, union says

Air Canada has announced it will suspend all flights through Tuesday afternoon after flight attendants still defy a federal back-to-work order.

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Air Canada has been “encouraged by the federal government’s pattern of intervention in labour disputes…there’s a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card now, with the use of section 107.”— @stephross.bsky.social #canlab

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 12mo ago

Defying an order to end the strike, the union's president proclaimed: "If we stick together, they can’t fire us all." Here's what Air Canada flight attendants are fighting for: pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/air...

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’

CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.

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Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. “This is the natural result of the repeated use of Section 107,” said @stephross.bsky.social. “As soon as workers have some power to actually move their employers, the government steps in.” www.thestar.com/business/air... #canlab

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’

CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.

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Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada! 📅 Sunday August 31 ⏰3 pm - 5 pm 📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

The 2026 CAWLS annual conference will be held June 3-5, 2026 in Winnipeg, hosted by the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba. Details and CfP to follow.

📚 Coming soon from BTL: 🔸 Althusser’s crime 🔸 Graphic anti-fascism 🔸 Labour + art 🔸 Cuba and Canada 🔸 Criminology rethought 🔸 Women in unions 🔸 Palestinian liberation = feminist issue 👉 tinyurl.com/4twdfbck @peggynash.bsky.social @jwhite54.bsky.social @kdubin.bsky.social @stephross.bsky.social

Congratulations to @stephross.bsky.social and @profsavage.bsky.social! "Shifting Gears" won the 2025 Leo Panitch Book Prize, celebrating the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. Thank you to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies for honouring this book! 🎉

Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · last yr.

Receiving the Leo Panitch Book Prize is a great honour. It’s especially close to our hearts because Leo was our mentor. We're delighted to carry on his legacy of critical analysis through our work on the changing landscape of Canadian labour politics. brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #canlab #cdnpoli

"Shifting Gears" tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships. bit.ly/43YFIx2

An incredible honour for @profsavage.bsky.social & me to receive the Canadian Assn for Work & Labour Studies' Leo Panitch Book Prize for best book in Canadian #LabourStudies in 2025, named for our mentor. So grateful to our peers for this recognition #canlab #cdnpoli ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears

Remember when we interviewed the award-winning authors? Listen to it here: www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...

Canada: Interview with Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

The LabourStart Podcast this week -- our first in 2025 -- is an interview with two Canadian writers who've written an important new book about one of the country's largest trade unions.Stephanie Ross ...

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Brock Labour Studies@brocklabour.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to @stephross.bsky.social & @profsavage.bsky.social.

Thrilled to have Shifting Gears recognized with the Leo Panitch Book Prize for 2025, honouring the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. A heartfelt thank you to CAWLS and to my co-author and longtime collaborator @stephross.bsky.social. www.ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears #canlab

With negotiations at a standstill, Canada Post workers could be on strike as early as next week. @stephross.bsky.social says the bargaining climate may be tougher this time around. #Labour #CanadaPost #McMasterExperts financialpost.com/news/canada-...

Canada Post hits pause on negotiations with union as May deadline approaches

Canada Post workers could be heading back to the picket lines, but they might find negotiating conditions far less favourable. Read more.

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Register soon for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, being held at the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University May 28-30, 2025. CAWLS members get discounted rates! cawls.ca/en/2025-annu... #canlab #labourstudies

2025 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies

The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

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Do union endorsements make a difference in election campaigns? Daniel Westlake and I weigh in, showing how union satisfaction can amplify the influence of endorsements at the ballot box. theconversation.com/do-union-end... #canlab #cdnpoli #elxn45

Do union endorsements make a difference in election campaigns?

Not all union endorsements carry the same weight, but they can play a strategically critical role in election campaigns.

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Join Mac Labour Studies and Workers Arts & Heritage Centre April 7 for Off The Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton. Untold stories of #hamont revealed by our students #canlab #labourstudies #CommunityEngagement Register here, as space is limited docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton

In collaboration with WAHC, students of McMaster Labour Studies created songs, poems, and other artistic media on story maps to tell suppressed stories of injustice and resilience in Hamilton. Visitor...

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Join us TODAY March 19 at 1pm ET for the our 2024-25 webinar series w/ @mfauvel.bsky.social on union-community coalition-building and lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement. Register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Coalition-building: Rethinking Alliances between Community-based Organizations and Unions . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ...

Based on activist ethnographic research on the $15 minimum wage coalition in Quebec, this presentation illustrates how participation in labour-community coalitions transforms the practices of communit...

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Join Mac Labour Studies March 19 for our last 2024-25 webinar w/ @mfauvel.bsky.social on union-community coalition-building + lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement Scan the QR code or click the link 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing

New from @policyalternatives.ca: Amazon has no intention of respecting the labour relations systems in any Canadian province, and will actively work to undermine them. The labour movement must respond in kind. By Niall Harney and @whosestreets.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Amazon’s Quebec closures are a wake-up call for Canada’s labour movement - CCPA

Amazon’s January 22 closure of all seven of its warehouses in Quebec is a shocking and unprecedented attack on North American workers. Not only does this decision leave as many as 4,500 workers sudden...

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Tens of thousands of city employees, including workers in shelters, long-term care homes and public health, could go on strike in just over two weeks.

Tens of thousands of city workers cleared to go on strike early next month

The city of Toronto received a no-board report from the province Wednesday, triggering a 17-day countdown toward a possible strike or lock out.

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🚨The Labor Action Tracker 2024 Annual Report drops tomorrow at 7am EST!🚨 Tomorrow morning we will be releasing our annual report compiling all of our 2024 work stoppage data - stay tuned to learn more about worker action in the U.S. over the past year!

My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!

Learned a lot that made me think about #labor and its dismal political options, in @labourstart.bsky.social podcast with @stephross.bsky.social and Larry Savage on their new book "Shifting Gears." Conclusion: It's a "should read" and you can't trust the reviews: www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...

Canada: Interview with Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

The LabourStart Podcast this week -- our first in 2025 -- is an interview with two Canadian writers who've written an important new book about one of the country's largest trade unions.Stephanie Ross ...

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Shifting Gears will be available in paperback in April 2025. You can request that your local library order a copy or pre-order your own today at: www.ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears #canlab #onpoli #cdnpoli

Join us tomorrow for @maxbaru.bsky.social on independent union organizing! 2:30pm ET on Zoom, register below #canlab #organizing #unionorganizing #labourmovement

Stephanie Ross@stephross.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us Feb. 5 @ 2:30pm ET for the latest in our webinar series feat. @maxbaru.bsky.social on What independent union movements tell us about today's marketplace of trade union organization To register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #canlab #unionorganizing #labourstudies

Surprised by Unifor Local 1285 historic endorsement of Doug Ford's Conservatives? @stephross.bsky.social & I recently published a book that details and makes sense of the union's political shifts and embrace of a more transactional politics. ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears #canlab #ONpoli

Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears - Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics; Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an ...

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In this @labourstart.bsky.social podcast interview, @stephross.bsky.social & I talk about our new book, the looming federal election, and the state of labour and working-class politics. www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis... #canlab #cdnpoli

Canada: Interview with Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

The LabourStart Podcast this week -- our first in 2025 -- is an interview with two Canadian writers who've written an important new book about one of the country's largest trade unions.Stephanie Ross ...

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