Let's stand with the workers who deliver the provincial public services we all rely on. Come to the Vancouver Art Gallery at noon next Wednesday, October 1 — and call on the province to negotiate a fair deal with @bcgeu.bsky.social and @pea.org. #BCLab

By imposing these changes without regard for the union's collective agreement, the Liberals are burning bridges with the labour movement faster than an Xpresspost delivery. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #canlab #cdnpoli

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

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

30 years ago today I signed my CUPE union card. I was 16 years old, feisty by nature and very nervous. I never could have predicted that would be the start of my life’s work.

Victoria-area friends: Come rally at NOON TODAY at the BC Legislature, and support @unitehere40.bsky.social Coast Victoria Hotel workers who've been locked out for demanding a living wage! #BCLab #yyj #solidarity

New LabourStart Podcast: BCGEU president Paul Finch tells us why his union is on strike - and how they will win www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...

Hundreds of family, friends, and Unifor members gathered to celebrate the remarkable life of Basil “Buzz” Hargrove at Toronto's historic Automotive Building today. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

The United Steelworkers have just announced the passing of their president emeritus, Leo Gerard Gerard, who was born in Creighton Mine, Ontario near Sudbury, was the second Canadian to head the international steelworkers union

Tragedy in Ottawa as a worker dies operating a forklift. No one should die to make a living. #EnforceWestray #CanLab

(2/2) Unpaid internships were banned in federal workplaces in 2020. However, they continue to exist due to labour code loopholes and inadequate laws in provinces and territories. Learn more and join the fight to end unpaid internships ✊ psacunion.ca/join-fight-e...

New campaign! NEXT shuts down Sri Lanka’s only unionised garment factory. Show your solidarity here & please share widely: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

It's time to repeal Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. Free collective bargaining is a fundamental right. Section 107 is a backdoor to kneecapping that right. It tips the scales against workers, against fairness, and against democracy itself.

(1/2) Unpaid internships are exploitative and anti-worker. Many students trying to join Canada’s workforce are forced to choose between working multiple jobs to make ends meet or abandon their chosen field altogether.

It was a beautiful weekend in Coaldale! ☀️️ Members and their families showed up for a breakfast full of pancakes and solidarity! 🥞 💪🏽 Stop by the picket line on your non-work time until 6 PM today at Civic Square (1801 20th Ave)

Unifor members at First Student in Windsor ratified a new three-year agreement today, Sept. 13, 2025, with their school bus employer, that includes a 13% wage increase over the life of the contract. #canlab

LabourStart's top international story www.ituc-csi.org/belarus-trad...

"As negotiations between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and Canada Post near the two-year mark, and with the Corporation showing no urgency to resolve the dispute, postal workers are escalating their strike actions." www.cupw.ca/en/postal-wo...

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it will lift its overtime ban as of Monday at 12:01 am ET, and instead implement a ban on commercial flyer delivery. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/can...

BCGEU says the overtime ban is effective today and applies to distribution centres in Delta, Richmond and Kamloops as well as head office in Burnaby. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

USA: 9/11 responders face a growing death toll and healthcare crisis www.iaff.org/news/9-11-re...

CANADA: More than 10,000 college support workers go on strike across Ontario www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CANADA: How unions are preparing for the age of AI www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Unifor rallied today with members, leaders & supporters outside Titan Tool & Die in Windsor after the company removed equipment & materials and locked out veteran workers—a clear sign they’re shifting production to the U.S. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

"The persistence of unpaid ground time in the aviation industry can be explained through institutional isomorphism theory." Read on, it makes sense. This is a good backgrounder. theconversation.com/flight-atten...

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.

The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike

Your negotiating committees have been working to represent you at the bargaining table and will continue to fight for fair working conditions as we head into conciliation at Dalhousie, MSVU and Saint Mary's.

The Canadian Farmworkers Union was as much a social movement as a union. The historic founding convention took place on April 6th, 1980. It was a joyous occasion.Ten days later, bat-wielding thugs attacked the Vice President's home.

After serving strike notice on Friday, the BCGEU walked off the job Tuesday. There will be picket lines in Victoria, Surrey and Prince George.

Its overuse undermines collective bargaining, erodes trust at the table, and lets employers off the hook in negotiations. This Labour Day, let’s be loud and clear: real respect means scrapping Section 107. 4/4

Our Photo of the Week: On 27 August members of the Federação Nacional dos Jornalistas (FENAJ) in Sao Paulo Brazil demonstrated their solidarity with Palestinian journalists after a targeted attack in Gaza that killed several members of the Palestinian Jorunalists Syndicate. (Photo: CUT)

CANADA: Why One Young Union Organizer Sees a Brighter Future thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Happy Labour Day! Members from across the GTA are gathering at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto to celebrate solidarity and workers’ pride. #LabourDay #canlab

CANADA: How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Tomorrow is Labour Day! 🛠️ Across Alberta, labour councils will be hosting festivities to bring workers together. Find your local labour council's event in this article by @kimsiever.bsky.social: albertaworker.ca/news/where-t... #LabourDay2025 #unionproud

Congrats to Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social on the launch of their new edited collection: The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada btlbooks.com/book/the-art... #canlab

Ottawa may need to change its intervention strategy in the wake of the #AirCanada strike. @eidlin.bsky.social and I weigh in on what may come next. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/aft... #cdnpoli #canlab

Trinidad and Tobago That sounds about right newsday.co.tt/2025/08/29/p...

What does this mean? You’ll have to wait and see. The BCGEU says: “The union will not be releasing details about the job action at this time. “ www.bcgeu.ca/92_7_of_publ...

Nearly 200 Crown Royal jobs in Amherstburg are at risk if production moves to the U.S. This isn’t just about one community — it’s about all Canadian workers.

@DalhousieU‬⁩ proposed arbitration to end its lockout of profs ⁦‪@dalfacultyassoc‬⁩ declined But story points out that arb proposal was only for wages & union had to drop everything else. Proposal is for show, so Dal can say “we offered arb but union is unreasonable” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@lanapayne.bsky.social vowed to continue fighting for workers everywhere in Canada after she won the election for the National President seat by a landslide today at Unifor’s Constitutional Convention in Vancouver. www.unifor.org/news/all-new... #CC2025 #canlab

CANADA / PALESTINE: Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate recipient of Unifor’s Nelson Mandela Human Rights Award www.newswire.ca/news-release...

New Post on Substack: "So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You" I discuss how Section 107 requires the Minister to believe that ordering the end of strikes will "promote settlements." It is now clear that the opposite is true. thelawofwork.substack.com/p/so-long-se...

Unifor awarded its highest honour, the Nelson Mandela Award, to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate in recognition of media workers’ dangerous and unrelenting coverage of the conflict in Gaza. #canlab

CANADA: Letter carriers’ union asks Canada Post for self-defence training as violent attacks spike www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

LITHUANIA: Former labor union leader elected as Lithuania’s new prime minister after predecessor quit apnews.com/article/lith...

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

Labour Day is just a week away! Come and march with us on September 1st and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our sibling unions at the annual Labour Day Parade. Please see your recent Member email for registration details!