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OFL Convention: labour and the working class are at a crossroads

PV Labour Bureau As far back as the 16th century, people said “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” When it comes to the working class in Ontario, labour leadership has been led many times to the rivers of class struggle [...]

Metro Days of Action – 25 years on and still lessons to heed

By Dave McKee Friday, October 25, 1996. I got up very early – around 4 in the morning – and called a cab because Toronto’s transit system was down. As I made my way through the city’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose [...]

Public sector workers poised to shut down New Brunswick in fight against austerity

By PV staff Across New Brunswick, public sector workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have voted by an impressive 94 percent to strike against the Conservative provincial government of Blaine Higgs. The strike mandate was [...]

As COVID cases mount, labour leads fight for Albertans’ lives

Workers protest cuts by provincial government and LTC profiteer Extendicare By PV staff COVID-19 cases in Alberta famously surged during the federal election, prompting right-wing premier Jason Kenney to publicly apologize for his [...]

Labour shut Canada down once before – time to do it again!

October 14 marks the 45th anniversary of the largest labour protest in this country’s history. On that day in 1976, one million workers put down their tools and walked out in protest in communities across Canada. At issue was wage control [...]

#Elxn44: Don’t be fooled by O’Toole… and prepare for a fightback!

As of press time, past the halfway point in the federal election campaign, the Conservatives have surged to hold a slim, but definite lead over the lagging Liberals. This raises the very real possibility of an Erin O’Toole victory. For Communist [...]

Time for labour’s shot across the bow

This year, Labour Day marks the thirtieth anniversary of the largest single union strike in Canada’s history – the walkout by 115,000 federal public service workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), in September 1991. Labour [...]

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