Class Struggle - The Maple (Page 14)

CERB Had Many Problems, But Also Achieved Some Remarkable Feats

We should celebrate the relative success of the CERB and the other individual support programs, and learn from them going forward.

If Canada’s long-term decline in union density is to be reversed, a combination of new organizing and legislative reform will be needed.

However, as is becoming increasingly obvious, lasting labour victories require mass mobilization, not dependence on the courts.

This month, nearly all workers at a Loblaw distribution warehouse in Calgary received layoff notices amid failed contract talks.

Multinational corporations are utilizing social justice rhetoric to portray a progressive public image while exploiting labour.

The Bank’s aggressive rate hikes will eventually produce the desired effect: thousands unemployed, wage stagnation and price deflation.

For this strike to be successful, unions across Ontario and Canada will need to offer more than strong words.

Governments and employers often hide behind the commitment of those doing gendered care work to justify substandard pay and conditions.

Reading the report, we see how unleashing the very ‘market forces’ the authors praise has created the problems they identify.