My latest! Canada backs gig worker rights globally while restricting the right to strike at home theconversation.com/canada-backs... #canlab

Call For Papers: Voix ouvrière / Workers’ Voice cclh.ca/newswire/app...

PhD grads and supervisors: consider applying for the CSN/REC Best PhD Dissertation Award. A great opportunity to showcase outstanding scholarship in the field. Details and eligibility here: csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...

The fantastic journal that I co-edit, Labour/Le Travail, published by @cclh.bsky.social and partners with @cawls-acets.bsky.social has a new AI policy. Happy to hear your thoughts!

A new special edition of the CAUT Journal guest co-edited by @profsavage.bsky.social & Susan Spronk all about organizing for power in Canada’s university sector is now online! Read it at journal.caut.ca

Commentary from @stephross.bsky.social & @profsmithsask.bsky.social featured in this article on the Carney government's relationship with organized labour. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #cdnpoli #canlab

Cedric de Leon is the recipient of the 2025 Leo Panitch Book prize for Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. Learn more about the book here: www.ucpress.edu/books/freedo... #LabourStudies

Check out Simon Black's op-ed on domestic workers co-authored with the President and the Secretary General of the Jamaica Household Workers’ Union, Elaine Duncan, and Shirley Pryce, in the @jamaicagleaner.bsky.social. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focu... #DomesticWorkersDay

Adam King & Niall Harney are the recipients of the 2025 New Voices in Labour Studies award for their paper “The Prospects and Challenges of a Sectoral Bargaining Framework for Manitoba” Check out some of their research on sectoral bargaining here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Jane Komori is the recipient of the 2025 Work & Labour Studies Best Article Prize for “It Could Not Be an Ordinary Labour Union”: Race, Class, Exclusion, and the Japanese Camp and Mill Workers Union, 1920–1941" Read her contribution here: lltjournal.ca/index.php/ll... #LabourStudies #canlab

As a reminder, nominations and submissions for the New Voices in Labour Studies Best Paper Prize are due by Friday, July 3 at 5pm.  Eligibility criteria can be found here: cawls.ca/wp-content/u...

The Ontario government and the province's teacher unions are about to enter a round of collective bargaining. Here's what you need to know as negotiations get underway, featuring commentary by @profsavage.bsky.social & @stephross.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/shorts/DNgrK... #onted #canlab #onpoli

Another great piece on protecting the right of workers to strike from @cawls-acets.bsky.social's Adam King.

It was great to reconnect with @prof-deleon.bsky.social at the @cawls-acets.bsky.social meeting in Winnipeg. Not only did we get to catch up & strategize together, but he got to pick up his hardware for the Leo Panitch Book Prize, & deliver the keynote. A true friend, colleague, and comrade ✊❤️

Congratulations to #BrockU labour studies professor Jordan House who was elected President of the Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies at the organization’s 12th annual conference earlier this week. @cawls-acets.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Manitoba for this year's annual conference! Mark your calendars for next year's conference to be held Jun 2-4, 2027 at Brock University in Ontario's Niagara Region. #canlab #LabourStudies