What’s a Rotating Strike?
Right after the day started today, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers began a rotating strike against Canada Post. Workers went on strike in four Canadian cities – Halifax, Edmonton, Windsor, and...
View ArticleMediation, Arbitration, Mediation-Arbitration, and Back-To-Work Legislation
Last week, Canada’s Parliament started the process of passing a law to end the rotating strikes at Canada Post. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been negotiating with Canada Post for...
View ArticleScabby the Rat: Good Times, Bad Times
Several years ago, I wrote about Scabby the Rat, the giant inflatable rat that is regularly used at union rallies and picket lines to draw attention to greedy employer behaviour. Recently, Scabby has...
View ArticleUber, Lyft, and Independent Contractors
Ridesharing officially came to British Columbia in January, when the provincial Passenger Transportation Board approved operating licenses for Lyft and Uber. Vancouver is one of the last major cities...
View ArticleA Crisis at Work
There’s more than enough chaos going on in the world right now. But amidst the coronavirus crisis, a couple of trends in the world of work are becoming more important. We have been told for years that...
View ArticleInto the Gap
Happy 2021! The Globe and Mail newspaper is currently running a series of articles titled Power Gap: a data-based investigation into gender inequality in Canadian workplaces. I’m really pleased to see...
View ArticleFact-Checking Card-Checking in British Columbia
In April, the British Columbia government introduced legislation that would change the Labour Relations Code and allow automatic certification in union organizing campaigns. This change would make it...
View ArticleUnionizing Starbucks
Just a few years ago, if someone had said that more than 200 Starbucks outlets in North America would be unionized, the response would have been something like this. Yet here we are, just after Labour...
View ArticleNot Recommended
Organizations that are run by elected boards of directors, or boards of elected executives, often struggle with either getting members to run for election, or getting the right members to run for...
View ArticleThe Power to Change
When I was researching the article on the “right to disconnect” that I recently wrote for The Conversation, one of the studies that I referenced was one exploring over-connectivity and gender equity in...
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