Unfinished business: banning replacement workers in New Brunswick
Replacement workers? Strikebreakers? Scabs? Call them what you will, bringing in replacement workers during a strike is one of the ...
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The Winnipeg General Strike at 100
It is the most famous single event in Canadian labour history. For six weeks in the spring of 1919, some ...
The Bethel Nursing Home Strike in 1981-82
Nursing home workers in New Brunswick fought long and hard to win the right to negotiate their wages and working ...
Canadians like to think of themselves as peacemakers. The Saudi arms deal suggests otherwise
They came, they saw, they stopped. In the light morning winter rain, small cars and pickup trucks entered the open ...
Saint John Longshoremen receive historic recognition
They call it the movement of goods, as if the goods moved on and off ships of their own accord. ...
Workers’ compensation, 1918: the beginnings
The debate had been going on for years. When workers take a job, they put themselves at the disposal of ...
Paul Robeson in Saint John, New Brunswick, October 1945: A Concert that was More than a Concert
The acclaimed play by Tayo Aluko, “Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs,” is on tour ...
Lives lived: Saint John’s working-class heroes
Almost all of them were born before the end of the First World War, several as early as the 1870s ...
Socialist snowplows and other news
Coming back from a recent trip, I picked up a newspaper at the airport. There was a choice of the ...
The great continuing mystery of Labour Day
It comes around every year, but it seems that fewer and fewer Canadians know why. It's a long weekend at ...
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