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CAWLS annual conference call for proposals - Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Jun 2-4, 2027
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CAWLS annual conference call for proposals - Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Jun 2-4, 2027
cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
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"[G]overnments have effectively normalized a system in which full-time employment often fails to provide economic security. It’s working poverty by design." - @AdamDKKing1 on Canada's minimum wages.
Canada’s Minimum Wages Are Rising, But Not Enough readthemaple.com/canadas-min…
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“I don’t think Canada becomes stronger by telling workers in ports or railways or airlines that their rights have to be surrendered whenever employers invoke competitiveness or the national interest,” said @Prof_Savage.
aljazeera.com/economy/2026/1…
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Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement.
Check out the latest by @AdamDKKing1 in @jacobin.
jacobin.com/2026/09/carney-c…
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Bill C-39 Poses An Existential Risk To Strike Rights
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Employers may have less incentive to bargain seriously if they believe government intervention is available whenever a dispute becomes politically difficult.
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CLC President Bea Bruske on changes to Labour Code: "Strikes are meant to have an economic impact. That is the whole point of withdrawing your labour. If you withdraw your labour and you don't have an economic impact, you don't have a very successful strike. And so by entrenching those metrics into the decision-making, it's really an expansion of 107."
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Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
@CAWLS_ACETS is holding its 2027 annual meeting Jun 2-4 at Brock University in Canada's Niagara Region.
Check out the Call for Proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
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No empirical evidence that progressive changes to Canada’s labour laws (federal anti-scab legislation Dan cites here) drove an uptick in strikes.
Anti-scab came into effect June 2025. Work stoppages (strikes and lockouts) in federal jurisdiction declined 43% btwn 2024 and 2025.
For 10 years, every employer organization in the country, including CFIB, urged Ottawa to use care in changing Canada's labour laws. Instead, with the support of every major political party, the scales were tipped heavily in favour of unions. Employers warned these changes, such as the recent ban on replacement workers, would lead to more strikes and economic uncertainty.
This is exactly what happened. We've seen a growing number of shutdowns at major supply chain players (ports, railways, airlines, Canada Post). And the impact extends to the entire economy, including small businesses who depend on these federal regulated institutions.
Now, Ottawa has to use other sweeping powers to undo the mess it created by ignoring the advice of employers. If we are trying to tell the world that Canada is a reliable place to do business and get things done, we can't keep operating like this. It is good the federal government is looking to make fresh changes.
Liberal labour reforms may be presented as a way to manage difficult disputes. But if Ottawa intervenes whenever a strike has major economic consequences, workers’ bargaining power will be weakened precisely when it matters most.
theconversation.com/canadas-…
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If Ottawa expands its authority to end strikes whenever they significantly affect the economy, it will not “modernize” labour relations. It will tilt the system further in favour of corporations, at workers’ expense. — @Prof_Savage
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“National interest” cannot become a catch-all excuse to override workers’ bargaining power whenever a lawful strike has economic consequences. That pressure is precisely what strikes are meant to create.
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Canada says proposed labour rules will reduce strike interventions. History suggests a more complicated picture
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.@stephross_mac & @Prof_Savage weigh in on the Carney's government's proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code.
Make no mistake about it, the Carney government's labour reforms neuter the right to strike. A right that’s suspended when it becomes effective isn’t much of a right at all.
thestar.com/business/unions-…
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Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
CAWLS is holding its 2027 annual meeting Jun 2-4 at Brock University in Canada's Niagara Region.
Check out the Call for Proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
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"Trump’s trade war is plainly an attack on Canadian workers. But it does not follow that workers should sign up uncritically for Carney’s revived 'Team Canada'," argues @AdamDKKing1 in @readthemaple.
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"The union is fighting to save the auto industry in Canada. Securing the pattern agreement won't mean much if the federal government sacrifices the auto industry in trade war with Trump," @Prof_Savage said.
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We are excited to welcome @CAWLS_ACETS members to #BrockU next year. Planning for the conference is underway and the call for proposals is open:
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#BrockU is hosting the annual @CAWLS_ACETS conference next year.
Check out the call for proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
#labourstudies #canlab @BrockLabour
Adam King speaks to Confederation of Canadian Unions about working-class political divisions.
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