Union organizing

4 Minutes

Labour

Salts of the earth – “Get on the job and organize!”

PV April 17, 2024

By Chris Townsend Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed. A tactic as old as the labour movement itself, salting describes going to work in an unorganized...

4 Minutes

Labour

Class struggle unionism, worker-led organizing and the Starbucks drives

PV April 17, 2024

By John McCharles Dozens of labour activists from across Canada joined People’s Voice on March 24 for its “Organizing Starbucks” panel. At the event, retired United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)...

7 Minutes

Labour

Worker-led campaigns, not backroom deals with the boss, needed to build labour movement

PV February 15, 2022

Gig workers: A tale of two organizing strategies PV Labour Bureau The January 27 announcement that the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) had struck a country-wide agreement with Uber Canada, under which the...

7 Minutes

Labour

Organizing is a necessity, not an option

PV August 17, 2021

A political history of the Hamilton Unemployed Union By Sam Hammond and Terry Fraser In the summer of 1981, Canada’s economy was in a recession which by mid-1982 had deepened into one of the...