Ontario workers need paid sick days, CERB, and status for all
Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at their breaking point. Workers are breaking their backs and risking their health to churn out profits and sustain an illusion of “normalcy.”
Gig workers resist Uber’s push for anti-labour reforms
While UberEats pours money into marketing schemes hiring “woke” celebrities as their ambassadors, they are committing wage theft from their workers in the middle of a global pandemic. Gig workers demanded better earnings, transparency, and respect, but got served an anti-union proposition they never asked for.
Solidarity with India’s farmers
Despite the multiple attacks on communal harmony, workers’ right, freedom of thought, and social equity, Indian people continue to exhibit exceptional resistance against the far-right Modi government. Published in Spring Magazine.
Heather picks a fight: Indigo’s bookstore workers organize
Frustrated with the company’s continued negligence of workers’ safety and refusal to provide decent work, workers at Indigo’s Square One Mall location — its second busiest store in Canada — took action to unionize. Published in Spring Magazine.
The reasons why we protest: Notes from nationwide Defund the Police call to action
Published in Spring Magazine