The alliance with organized labour was strongest in Ontario, where 200,000 of the 275,000 trade unionists affiliated with the ...

Workers should be central to this effort.” For longtime activists and observers of the Canadian labor movement, the irony of Bruske’s response was striking. From the middle of the 1980s onward, the ...

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate ticked down in January as the labour market added 76,000 ... manufacturing jobs depend on U.S. demand for Canadian exports. In the automotive sector ...

In 1969, a caucus of NDP members known as the Waffle organized to promote a socialist and nationalist agenda, which included ...

How can unions respond in ways that will invigorate the labour movement for the twenty-first century? This article addresses these questions by first presenting a critique of the future-of-work ...

Almost 40 years ago, the Left was warning about the consequences of tying Canada economically to the US with free trade.

Canadian labour markets surprised broadly on the upside for a second straight month in January, with employment rising solidly and the unemployment rate unexpectedly slipping lower, RBC Economics ...

The rapid influx of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) into Canada in the early 2000s posed significant challenges to Canadian unions. Using narrative analysis ... By linking the contemporary reaction ...

will hold a press conference to address the urgent economic and social crisis posed by the U.S.'s plan to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian products on February 1 st. Tariffs of this magnitude would ...

Tom Parkin is a political commentator with a social democratic perspective who has worked in politics in Ontario and Saskatchewan and in the Canadian labour movement. Contact Tom on twitter at ...