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The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the terms

Canada Post workers start voting on tentative agreements today amidst major changes to the postal service and mixed signals from their union.

For @pressprogress.ca I broke down what’s in the agreements and why some CUPW leaders are encouraging workers to vote 'no'

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The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the terms

Canada Post workers start voting on tentative agreements today amidst major changes to the postal service and mixed signals from their union.

For @pressprogress.ca I broke down what’s in the agreements and why some CUPW leaders are encouraging workers to vote 'no'

pressprogress.ca/canada-post-...

Their work is much harder than say a MP - so why not pay long-term care workers the same amount or better? They deserve it!

“If We Have to Go on Strike, We Will,” Say Nova Scotia’s Long-term Care Workers Despite decades of experience, many make less than $20 an hour

getting very emotional looking at photos of long-term care workers on the picket line in Nova Scotia: a women-dominated workforce, the lowest paid LTC workers in Atlantic Canada, on strike 3+ years after their agreement expired.

I wrote about them earlier this year
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The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the terms

Today, postal workers begin voting on new collective agreements. But CUPW's leadership is divided on what members should do.

The mixed signals that Canada Post workers are getting from their union:

pressprogress.ca/canada-post-...

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

this is today! I'll be talking about strikes and showing some photos

Solidarity with the blue collar workers of Montreal who just marched past my hotel room blasting vuvuzelas. Appreciate the wake-up call and your labour militancy.

Prohibition in Canada began in here in 1907 during a moral panic about immigration. The media played a key role. And there have been a dozen or more moral panics since. The main thing is they shouldn't feel orchestrated or led. They should just feel like a new emerging consensus. But they ain't

There has been coverage of the 10yr anniversary of the declaration of the toxic drug public health emergency this week, but mostly it's been doctors and public health experts. Some good interviews, like Dr. Gabor Mate & Dr. Paxton Bach. But less of us. It's a taste thing. A newsroom vibe.

I get called less by journalists since the moral panic against harm reduction got started a couple years back. Even the good ones stand a little further back. Plus, we can no longer get meetings with cabinet ministers. These are clearly the least important metrics of backlash, but there it is.

staring into the maw of neoliberalism again (reporting on the 'transformation' of Canada Post)

Canada didn't have anything equivalent to America's 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act until 2020 and it's still weaker than America's framework. That's four decades, two more generations of assimilation of Native children, continuing the project of residential schools in another form.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

I'll Wait For You
David Wilson
2025

JUICY LOVE DION EVERYONE

ok that juicy love dion v jane don't lipsync was the best possible outcome of the lipsync smackdown

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Vancouver friends! I'll be reading from a couple pieces I wrote for Briarpatch and talking about how the labour disputes I profiled have evolved since publishing those stories. Come out and support independent journalism!

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Listen to this episode! Jack does a great job breaking down what this proposed change means for all of us in Ontario

Photo of Grand Chief Stewart Phillip sitting at long table, with Adam olsen on his right. He

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip "What we have here today is absolute solidarity on the part of First Nations and our allies who know how critical DRIPA is to the future of reconciliation in BC. It’s the only path forward." at press conference here in Vancouver.

The reason necropolitians like Carney should scare everyone is the underclass they've decided are already dead will almost certainly one day include you.
We saw it during the pandemic with the elderly and sick. We see it with the unhoused and drug users. If anyone is expendable, everyone can be.

my life completely fell the fuck apart two years ago, but I am still here and (world chaos aside for just a moment) I am very proud of the life I've built since then

Similar to labor coverage, local news tries to give bird stories balanced coverage to a situation with a great power imbalance. Can't mention how we're on their land that we stole every segment! Can mention "Oh birds live and go to the bathroom outside" for some reason.

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not

It is truly that simple

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...

A second photographer in Los Angeles lost an eye to law enforcement "less-lethal" munitions while just taking pictures at protests.

These weapons are supposed to be used ONLY for immediate violent threats.

Marshall Woodruff and now Tucker Collins were armed with nothing but a camera.

Advanced labour studies for my students today

how dare you have these incredible artists pour their hearts out about the discrimination they've faced as queer people and then show me some ai billshit