Flight Attendants Decisively Reject Air Canada’s Offer In a stunning show of determination, the flight attendants of Air Canada voted by 99.1 percent to reject the wage offer. The turnout was 94.6 percent. Virtually all the CUPE members voted no. This is a testament to the workers’ grassroots organizing and iron will. The flight attendants, […]
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Air Canada and Government Defeated Flight attendants working for Air Canada have won a victory for themselves and the entire the labour movement. In addition to winning important gains for themselves, their determination to defy the Labour Board’s return-to-work order has reinforced workers’ right to strike. The 10,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public […]
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Governments across Canada have once again proven whose interests they serve — and it’s not those of working people, Indigenous communities or the environment. The federal Bill C-5, Ontario’s Bill 5 and BC’s C-15 are all assaults on democracy, land rights, and ecological protection in favour of corporate profit and unchecked development. The Carney Liberals, […]
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At 12:58 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday, August 16, flight attendants, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and employees of Air Canada, commenced the biggest labour battle of the year so far. Barely 12 hours later, federal Liberal minister Patty Hajdu intervened in support of the bosses, using the government’s favourite anti-worker […]
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The public post office has been set up to fail. Its high-paid executives have mismanaged it, provoking a labour dispute and spending $470 million on an unnecessary new high-tech processing facility in Scarborough, Ontario. Successive federal governments have encumbered it with various restrictions and mandates, forcing it to compete with multinational corporations like Amazon. They […]
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Varun Belur is a member of Socialist Alternative US. On July 9, 2025, the Indian labor movement fired a warning shot against the Modi government’s onslaught of privatization and austerity. 250 million workers across the country halted entire swathes of the economy in an all-India general strike. Key sectors like mining, transport and construction were […]
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A small group of Uber drivers, union officials and organizers gathered in Victoria’s inner harbour on the morning of Thursday, July 3, 2025, to drink coffee, pose for pictures, and celebrate the first-ever union certification of gig workers in Canada. This historic moment for the labour movement brings over 500 individual drivers into one, much […]
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On June 18, Vancouver dockworkers and their allies commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935). This so-called battle was actually a vicious attack by police, who were armed with machine guns and tear gas, on unarmed workers who were trying to provide for their families in the midst of the Great […]
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Donald Trump has called “tariff” his favourite word, showing that he must have a limited vocabulary. When he imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in 2018, he claimed it was protecting American industry. In reality, these tariffs were a nationalist smokescreen for a deeper capitalist crisis — one where working people, not corporate elites, […]
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Not surprisingly, the Liberal’s new leader, Mark Carney, has called the federal election for April 28. The Liberal’s sense is that they can win. At the end of January Poilievre and the Conservatives seemed to be coasting to a landslide victory. Two months later it is now the Liberals who appear to be heading to […]
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