HOW COME MANAGERS COME FIRST? That’s the question Tullio DuPonti, president of Unifor 2458 had for administrators at the Erie Shores Healthcare hospital in Leamington, Ontario on January 6.

UNION SPIES ARE ALIVE AND WELL and burrowing away inside Amazon. T’was ever thus.

SHANE MacQUEEN DIDN’T EXPECT A TEA PARTY. No more than he expected casual and continuous racism. But that’s what he has faced ever since he started to work in Alberta oil fields 14 years ago.

WTF! That's what I kept thinking as I worked my way through Broken Dreams, Broken Lives, the recent report on life for female members inside the RCMP. WTF! Page after outrageous page.

FACTORY WHISTLES WERE A GOOD THING. They blew to begin and to end the work day. The time to start work and end work—to down tools—was rigid and fixed. Not so now. Now, in the middle of this pandemic, people are working longer.

“IT’S TOO SOON TO TELL.” That’s what the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai is supposed to have said in 1972 when asked who won the French Revolution. The same could be said about who won the recent grocery workers strike in Newfoundland and Labrador.

THEY SHOULD FEEL LIKE HEROES. But they don’t. The nurses, personal support workers (PSWs), custodians, cleaners and other health care workers on the frontline in the Covid fight in Ontario feel they are being callously “sacrificed”.

CANADA COULD USE A LITTLE JIMMY McMILLAN and his The Rent Is Too Damn High Party right now.

REMEMBRANCE DAY CAME AND WENT in just three minutes for workers at Tim Hortons in Nova Scotia. That’s all the time off the law allows them.

THE ERROR MESSAGE WAS A SHOCK. What Hajar Pittman expected was an automatic approval of her application for the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB). What she got instead was an error message saying she wasn’t eligible.