Class Struggle - The Maple (Page 12)

The PSAC Strike Is A Fight We Should All Get Behind

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.

While making a few important gains, this budget is another huge missed opportunity from the Liberals.

More than 66 per cent of applications for new bargaining units occurred after card-check came into force in June 2022.

While rate hikes have choked economic growth and increased interest payments, they haven’t managed to crush job and wage growth.

Were it not for the organized power of working women, governments’ responses to the pandemic would have been far less impactful.

The most recent ‘Labor Action Tracker’ report offers moderately good news for the state of labour throughout the country.