THEY DIDN’T BUDGE. The three women on Cooper Street in Ottawa stood their ground. It was their street. They stared down the driver in the big rig. Marika Morris stood in the middle of the street to block his way. She gave him a thumbs down every time he blasted his big rig horn. It didn’t frighten the three of them off.

ALL WORKERS UNITE is not a new message. But the Workers’ Action Network (WAN) thinks it is still the best message to use to mobilize working people to get the “decent work” they need and want.

TRUCKERS HAD A GOOD DAY in Brampton, Ontario last week—and it had nothing to do with convoys or vaccine mandates. They stood up to their boss and won—twice.

MESSY ACTIVISM is what David Alton and William Turman call it. They practice it through Ground Up Waterloo Region, a community action group they founded in Kitchener, Ontario in December 2020. They call what they do messy because there is no deep planning or heavy strategizing involved.

THEY COUNTED ON THEMSELVES TO WIN—and they did. Rank-and-file member solidarity within the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 569 in Edmonton got the city to drop plans to privatize the jobs of 100 cleaners

DAVID AALDERS FIGHTS HUNGER in his own backyard. Literally.

THE LITTLE UNION THAT COULD...DID! The 82 members of the Concordia University of Edmonton Faculty Association (CUEFA) went on strike to get a better deal at work—and they got it on January 15.

THERE'S NO VACCINE FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. It’s a cruel reality that prompted the creation of the Occupational Disease Reform Alliance (ODRA). The alliance is the latest concentrated push by Ontario workers to get fair treatment from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) system.

THE WORKERS WON WITH CLASS ACTION. Not exactly the kind Karl Marx had in mind. But a big win none the less.