Pressure from underfunding has led colleges to make up the difference through a combination of increased student fees and increasingly precarious employment conditions for faculty.
The Liberals say they will defend workers’ rights, but what are they doing to defend manufacturing and auto jobs which are sliding south, like the 400 CAMI jobs, faster every day?
Unifor adopted a strong resolution in support of BDS against Israel: the first time that a major private sector union in Canada has publicly supported BDS.
There are still 4 million private sector workers who do not have union coverage – almost seven times the current level of private sector union coverage.
Evidence shows Canadians who rely on prescription drugs don’t have the money to cover costs, and instead are splitting pills, skipping dosages to stretch prescriptions, sharing medicines or going deep into debt.
Thanks to the mobilization of rank and file delegates, an emergency resolution unanimously endorsed by the Canadian Council was overwhelmingly supported by delegates to the Canadian Labour Congress Convention.
Angela Davis spoke at the Canadian Labour Congress' 2017 Convention in Toronto, Ontario addressing prison abolitionism, Marxism, and revitalizing the labour movement.
