The Brescia University College Faculty Association is in a strike position after voting 94% in favour of strike action. According to their website, “As Canada’s only women’s [...]
Showdown! Making Modern Unions (Between the Lines, 2016), by Rob Kristofferson and Simon Orpana From the publisher’s website: “Seventy years ago, thousands of North American workers [...]
The Global Labour Research Centre is hosting its second annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held at York University on October 27-28, 2016. The symposium will showcase research by [...]
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), a union representing 55,000 professional public service employees (mostly federal; some provincial employees), is seeking a [...]
At CAWLS’ Annual General Meeting in June 2016, a new executive was elected for a two-year term. Stephanie Ross and Marlea Clarke were re-elected as President and Secretary respectively, and [...]
Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), by Nicole Cohen From the publisher’s website: “As media industries undergo [...]
CAWLS is delighted to welcome a new undergraduate program in work & labour studies to the field. What follows is a message from the new program’s coordinator and CAWLS member, Rob [...]
Ontario’s labour studies programs have been profiled in the Fall 2016 issue of Education Forum, the magazine of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. Speaking to both [...]
Unions and the Courts: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (UBC Press), by Larry Savage and Charles W. Smith Forthcoming March 2017 Since the turn of the twenty-first century, [...]
“Towards Racial Justice: Engaging White Privilege in the Workplace” takes place on November 8, 2016 in Toronto. This pilot workshop is for white, racialized and Indigenous people who, in their [...]
