Labour expert and professor of sociology Barry Eidlin says Quebec law is “an existential threat to unions.” @eidlin.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social Read more here: globalnews.ca/news/1150977...

The extra hour of sleep is nice, but something else I appreciate about the shift back to Standard Time is no longer having to suppress the urge to correct people when they write “EST/PST” when they really mean “EDT/PDT” 1/

For Halloween this year, I’m the Honmoon from K-Pop Demon Hunters. But as I told my students in class this morning, not just any Honmoon — the Golden Honmoon. 1/

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Look at this gross overreach by the Quebec government. Total interference into union affairs. The unions will have to respond to protect their organizations.

In case you were wondering about this weird thing called the "notwithstanding clause" in Canada: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Smith UCP government: We're violating Alberta teachers' Charter rights and ordering them back to work for the kids! The kids: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

POV: you’re about to testify before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications about why government back-to-work orders are a bad idea. 1/

"[G]overnment action is ultimately founded on its ability to be perceived as a legitimate political actor,” says Eidlin. “And in cases where government acts in ways that are perceived as illegitimate, it is highly likely that their actions will be disobeyed.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Now that Smith's UCP has passed a law ordering Alberta teachers back to work, we'll see if the teachers exercise the "Air Canada option" and defy that law. Should be an interesting day tomorrow... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I was back on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Daybreak‬⁩ to talk about proposed changes to Quebec labour law that would erode unions’ ability to advocate for their members and workers as a whole #canlab www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

We showed up for the No Kings rally in Pasadena today. The kids were feeling grumpy, but thanks to the diffusion of creative Portland protest tactics, they did at least have fun chatting up the many inflatable animals on hand for the protest. #NoKings #NoICE #ICEOutOfLA #NoTrumpNoKKKNoFascistUSA

Proud of my colleagues who did the work to pass this ⁦‪MAUT‬⁩ member resolution endorsing the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Symbolic and too late, yes, but still important. www.thetribune.ca/news/breakin...

Can’t even begin to express what this legend meant to the LA Labor & Immigrant Rights Movements, UCLA, and me… All I know is that there’s a Nonviolent Direct Action being organized in Heaven right now! Rest in power brother Kent! 🙏🏽💔✊🏽 #KentWong #Presente

For US-based union members: The Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is hosting a workshop on November 5, 7:30 p.m. ET, on the democratic rights of union members. You can find out more and register by clicking on the link! uniondemocracy.org/democratic-r...

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/ marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Tens of thousands of students across Montreal universities and CÉGEPs staged a one-day strike for Palestine today, based on authorization votes taken in general assemblies and online referenda. 1/

With 51,000 Alberta teachers now on strike, we currently have something on the order of 130,000 workers on strike across Canada, a country with 1/10 the population of the US: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

wizard frog is insane

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

So! So! So! Solidarité! Avec! Avec! Avec la Palestine! Huge march for Palestine in Montreal today 🇵🇸 Manifestation énorme pour la Palestine à Montréal aujourd’hui 🇵🇸 #AllEyesOnGaza #FreePalestine #PalestineWillBeFree #BoycottIsrael

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

An impressive analysis of the broader context surrounding the current contract dispute at Canada Post. The author puts workers at the center of the story, showing of how changes in the structure of work at the post office concretely affect workers’ lives. maisonneuve.org/article/2025...

Hands off @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social !

TFW your student comes up after class and asks “would it be OK if I wrote my research paper on the causes and consequences of the defeat of Operation Dixie?”

We had our first inter-union rally of the academic year today, bringing together students, faculty, and staff from across campus to speak out against austerity and cutbacks. 1/

I’m excited to be part of this round table discussion happening at @lawmcgill.bsky.social on November 10! It will feature a great panel of labour experts including @thelawofwork.bsky.social , @sibelataogul.bsky.social , Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, and me. 1/ 🧵

Great resource @eidlin.bsky.social . I would add that "tech" changes not just paid jobs but labour too. AI and other tech may eliminate some paid work. But they also push labour elsewhere: to unpaid system maintainers, to low-paid data and algorithm refiners in the majority world/global south, etc.

It may be that the future isn't jobless, but it's worth asking which jobs persist, who performs them, where, under what conditions. And importantly which types of *labour* are maintained, intensified, devalued, etc. Often, AI/tech create more labour, but not necessarily in the form of paid jobs.

‼️BREAKING‼️ Quebec court blocks McGill administration attempt to restrict campus protests. Following months of student protests calling for action against the genocide in Gaza, McGill administration sought an injunction that would radically curtail many forms of protest 1/

This book was published in 1985. Forty years later, you’d only need to update the cover art and change a few words on the back, but the basic themes and concerns would be the same. A useful reminder amidst all the AI hype and fears of a jobless future. 1/

I was on CTV News this past Friday to discuss the issues underlying the Canadian federal government's announcement of a major restructuring at Canada Post, and the strike that this provoked from @cupwsttp.bsky.social members across the country: youtu.be/i-ZTifpduUQ?...

RIP Assata ✊ Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the U.S. since 1979, dies in Cuba www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

I was back on @globalnews.ca BC this morning to talk about the declaration of war that the federal government issued against postal workers with yesterday's proposal to "restructure" Canada Post: globalnews.ca/video/114523...

The Liberals are handing management at #CanadaPost a battering ram to beat CUPW into submission. I suspect the union won’t go down without a fight. www.thestar.com/business/ott... #cdnpoli #canlab

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research and science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

It is incomprehensible, shortsighted, masochistic and reprehensible that Canada's government is considering cutting research funding in a global context where the very pursuit of knowledge is under threat, all while touting a "nation building" agenda

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg. This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines. cawls.ca/en/2026-annu... #canlab #LabourStudies

I was back on CBC Daybreak Montreal with Sean Henry this morning to help place the current STM strike in a broader context: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The govt of Canada has banned Kneecap from entering, citing "the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly." The govt should be specific here, or else this is is a continued, worrying crackdown on expression (+ border violence!). www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

While the Academic Conference Fashion Report has taken on a life of its own as a moment of levity amidst the conference chaos, its origins are a bit darker. 1/ 🧵

The first rule of expert labour commentary: never pass up an opportunity to make a Spinal Tap reference #canlab #spinaltap #labour #strike #bcgeustrike2025 #bcgeu

TFW a student meekly approaches you after class and, with great hesitance, asks if it would possibly be OK to write their research paper on a question related to the Knights of Labor. Yes, yes, you may. [NOTE: This is before I have made any mention of the Knights in class] #ProfessorGoals

Ah, how I miss the archives…

Excited for my union’s first-ever “Welcome Back Week” activities this week as we gear up to win our first-ever contract! The Association of McGill Professors of the Faculty of Arts (AMPFA) is organizing! If you’re on campus this week, come and find us! #unionpower #unionstrong

Air Canada flight attendants have rejected their tentative agreement by 99.1%, with 94.6% turnout. What are the broader implications? I shared my thoughts this morning on @cbcnews.ca www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

A few thoughts on the overwhelming tentative agreement rejection at #AirCanada. 🧵 #canlab 1. The union oversold the tentative agreement by declaring the end of unpaid work. That framing seems to have rubbed some members the wrong way.