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Supporting Collective Bargaining, Unless it Works: The Past and Present of Federal Labour Rights Suppression in Canada

Christo Aivalis This is the third and final post in the Canada Post and Canadian Culture series. Canada Post and its employees have had an undeniable impact on the culture of this...

America 250: How the UAW and other labor unions helped shape the nation

The weekend. The 40-hour work week. Better wages. Much of what American workers take for granted today traces back to the labor movement — and Detroit was at the center of it all...

America 250: How the UAW and other labor unions helped shape the nation

The weekend. The 40-hour work week. Better wages. Much of what American workers take for granted today traces back to the labor movement — and Detroit was at the center of it all...

America 250: How the UAW and other labor unions helped shape the nation

The weekend. The 40-hour work week. Better wages. Much of what American workers take for granted today traces back to the labor movement — and Detroit was at the center of it all...

Health care workers and the ‘third wave’ of occupational health

Peter L. Twohig On 16 April 2026, five thousand long-term care (LTC) workers in 56 facilities throughout Nova Scotia began a strike. A tentative agreement ended the labour action a...

Health Care Workers and the ‘Third Wave’ of Occupational Health

A tentative agreement ended the labour action after eight weeks, another example of a lengthy labour dispute in a nursing home. The post Health Care Workers and the ‘Third Wave’ of...

From Jim Crow to ‘Right to Work’: Virginia’s long war against organized labor

Virginia adopted its “right to work” law in 1947, right in the middle of the segregation era.

Retiring Edinburgh trade union leader Des Loughney looks back on 50 years of change in the city's industry and employmen...

‘I think we've turned a corner and the role of the trade unions is increasing’ - Des Loughney

June 22, 2026

Pro-labor candidate wins DC mayoral primary; Department of Labor secures court order regarding back wages.

June 7, 2026

SAG-AFTRA members ratify a four-year CBA and the International Trade Union Confederation releases its 2026 Global Rights Index.

Labour law in the age of AI

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed the modern workplace, reshaped operational processes and altered how employees perform their duties. This tech...

The largest labour organization in Canada has committed to cutting ties with Israel’s trade…

How Palestine Activists Eked Out a Win at the Canadian Labour CongressThe largest labour organization in Canada has committed to cutting ties with Israel’s trade federation, the Hi...

‘A century of keeping Labour true to working people – and the work continues’

This week, we celebrated 100 years of the Trade Union Group of Labour MPs. From its inception in… The post ‘A century of keeping Labour true to working people – and the work contin...

Unions launch referendum against a minimum-wage reform they describe as attack on women

Minimum wages are one of the most contentious issues in Swiss labour policy, exposing tensions between Switzerland’s federal government and the cantons over who should determine pa...

June 2, 2026

Illinois passes rideshare driver unionization bill; DOL issues new union financial reporting rule; unions push back against AI data center regulations.

Labour has failed

As the FT notes this morning: Ed Miliband played a key role in advising Andy Burnham to commit to strict fiscal discipline if he becomes Read the full article...

July 8, 2026

DOL plans to make changes to the PERM immigration program; three-day hearing on proposed forced-labor tariffs is underway; Mamdani recovers $2.3M in corporate settlements.

July 15, 2026

U.S. labor productivity climbs at its fastest pace in decades; a federal judge grants a preliminary injunction to anti-abortion groups challenging Michigan’s civil rights law; and...

Ban on slave labour sidelined to meet Red Ed's Net Zero goals

Labour enshrined in law a promise that its state-run company GB Energy (GBE) would not fund firms using forced labour, such as the China ones that dominate the market.

June 17, 2026

Bezos predicts AI will create labor shortage; Canada introduces legislation to strengthen forced labor import ban.

Summer labor strife looms

The labor rights of Korea's unionized workers have, over decades of growth, been the subject of tug-of-wars with management. The so-called “summer labor struggles” — as most compan...

Labour Day under a state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago

Police used colonial-era law to block a protest of police authority in the name of protecting the “integrity” of a national event memorialising unauthorised, anti-colonial resistan...

Child labour’s long road to zero

May 20, 2026

LIRR strike ends after three-day shutdown; key senators reject Trump's proposed 26% cut to Labor Department budget; EEOC moves to eliminate employer demographic reporting requireme...