Labour

3 Minutes

British Columbia Canada Labour

BC public sector workers closer to strike action

DG August 1, 2022

By Kimball Cariou Just as the NDP majority in the BC Legislature starts to choose a new premier, a potential strike by 33,000 public sector workers is moving closer. Soon after John Horgan announced...

5 Minutes

Culture Labour Review Women and Gender

Workplace sexual harassment should be easy to fix – but real life shows it requires a sustained campaign

PV Editor June 9, 2022

By Helen Kennedy In 1979, Bonnie Robichaud filed a sexual harassment grievance in her workplace, the Department of National Defence. A high-ranking officer told her she was the only one who had ever complained....

9 Minutes

Labour World

WFTU Congress: “Pull the future out of the mud of capitalism!”

PV Editor June 3, 2022

By George Mavrikos At the recent World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Congress, outgoing leader George Mavrikos delivered an opening speech which analyzed the WFTU’s activity during the previous period and identified the challenges...

3 Minutes

Canada Editorial Labour

Ontario election a tough lesson for labour

PV Editor June 3, 2022

PV Editorial Soon after the 2018 Ontario provincial election, still giddy after the NDP’s “breakthrough” to take Official Opposition status, the labour movement did exactly what it should not have done – it sat...