Class Struggle - The Maple

B.C. Increases Minimum Wage, But Workers Are Still Behind

Even with the highest provincial minimum wage, many B.C. workers will continue to earn low pay and struggle to make ends meet.

Teams of union organizers across Ontario, Alberta and B.C. have had conversations with hundreds of workers and begun signing union cards.

A judge at the Ontario Superior Court ruled that legislation in effect since 2011 that removed this right is unconstitutional.

A new book from Sean Carleton encourages critical thinking about connections between colonialism, education and capitalist exploitation.

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Any major breakthrough among delivery drivers will require eventually compelling Amazon to bargain as a joint or related employer.

On this International Workers’ Day, we remain in the midst of the largest public sector strike in Canadian history.

Canadian flight attendants work an average of 35 hours per month for free, and are exempt from some federal labour benefits.

Curtains may be closed if the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra fails to maintain a cost of living adjustment in the contract for stagehands.

Affixing a progressive industrial program to a bellicose foreign policy won’t promote working-class interests.