Publications

Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh

It is estimated that over half a million Rohingya women, men, and children are currently living in dire conditions in Bangladesh – without clean water, sanitation, or even basic shelter. They were compelled to flee Myanmar this past summer due to what the United Nations Office of Human Rights is now calling “brutal, well-organized, coordinated and systematic attacks.” These attacks…

TWLH-Aug-1

More than 75 years later, the program has been expanded and adapted to changing times – even renamed for political reasons – but today it is badly frayed by successive cuts. A few key changes would restore EI and its ability to meet the needs of employers, workers and the economy as a whole. This brief history shows the rise…

TWLH-Aug-2

It’s not listed among the top tourist destinations in Ottawa, but if you are visiting the National Capital Region this summer (as many Canadians do), you may wish to pay your respects to the nine workers who went to work that day and never got to go home, and the other 55 whose lives were forever changed. [[{“fid”:”1457″,”view_mode”:”default”,”fields”:{“format”:”default”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:”Photo of men…

TWLH-Aug-3

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TWLH-Aug-4

Summer in Canada is the time of music festivals and one of the earliest held was Mariposa at Oval Park in Orillia. So what does this have to do with the labour movement you ask? Well – many folk singers of the past and still today focus on social justice issues, many of these focus on workers’ struggles and gains.…

TWLH-Aug-5

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TWLH-Jul-4

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TWLH-Jul-3

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TWLH-Jul-2

Stanley Moore and Dale Akerstrom were both employees of the federal government. Moore was a Foreign Service Officer, employed by the Department of External Affairs, while Akerstrom was working for the Canadian Employment and Immigration Commission.  In 1991, Moore was posted to the Canadian Embassy in Indonesia. When he applied for spousal benefits related to the move for his partner,…

TWLH-Jul-1

The “On To Ottawa Trek” was a worker protest against unfair treatment and government austerity that captured public support, contributed to the defeat of the Conservative federal government of R.B. Bennett later that year, and paved the way to the establishment of a national unemployment insurance plan. In the 1930s, “The Great Depression” had crippled the Canadian economy and resulted…