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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 27

📚 New Book Review in Feminist Media Studies: "Sex Work in Popular Culture" by Lauren Kirshner 📚

Kirshner's book is infused with a deep and unabashed respect for sex workers and a fierce critique of capitalism. Highly recommend!

Review Link: tinyurl.com/ymezvrdk
Book Link: tinyurl.com/5drdze2v

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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · Aug 27

New Post on Substack:

"So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You"

I discuss how Section 107 requires the Minister to believe that ordering the end of strikes will "promote settlements." It is now clear that the opposite is true.

thelawofwork.substack.com/p/so-long-se...

So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You

Why it is time to retire Section 107 to the Labour Law history books

thelawofwork.substack.com

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today. Locked out. This was an especially dirty move by Dal when the faculty were in the process of voting in the latest offer.
Join a picket line and definitely don’t cross one.
#solidarity

Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Aug 19

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Aug 18

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social

www.thestar.com/business/air...

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’

CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.

www.thestar.com

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · Aug 19

CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table.

ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

#canlab #aircanadaflightattendants

Air Canada strike updates: Airline, flight attendants in negotiations, union says

Air Canada has announced it will suspend all flights through Tuesday afternoon after flight attendants still defy a federal back-to-work order.

ctvnews.ca

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just fully admitting to bargaining in bad faith

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 18

Absolute Scum over at @aircanada.bsky.social

Stay strong @cupescfp.bsky.social! Flight attendants are making history

CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · Aug 18

Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the impact of the strike.

Timing - 2:35
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/...

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 17

It’s kind of beautiful that our collective hatred of Air Canada is building class consciousness

CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · Aug 17

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

cupe.ca/88-canadians...

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

New polling conducted by Abacus Data confirms that nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants’ fight for fair pay – and they want the federal government to back off and let them neg...

cupe.ca

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very helpful breakdown!

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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · Aug 15

Good time to repost our piece from last year tracing history of federal government’s cute misuse of S.107 of Canada Labor Code to end strikes simply by emailing the CIRB and ordering it to ban the strike.

Story begins with #AirCanada flight attendants in 2011.

lawofwork.ca/the-mysterio...

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 17

@cupescfp.bsky.social & the Air Canada flight attendants are defending every single Canadian’s right to strike & bargain.

CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · Aug 17

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Tell me again how ‘great’ Carney is. Canada Post and now these seriously underpaid workers for A PRIVATE COMPANY ordered back to work.
I guess our constitutional right to collective bargaining is only ‘protected’ some of the time.

Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered binding arbitration in the Air Canada flight attendant strike.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 17

"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."

Amazing that flight attendants are standing up this back to work order.

Shame on @aircanada.bsky.social

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News

Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

www.cbc.ca

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 15

@aircanada.bsky.social does not pay their flight attendants for essential duties that they perform.

The quality of the Air Canada flight experience has plummeted & flight prices have skyrocketed, but AC can't be bothered to properly pay their crew.

Take action here: unfaircanada.com

Home | Unfair Canada

unfaircanada.com

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 11

New article out in Media Industries on how media workers tackle equity from below via collective bargaining, co-authored with @madisontrusolino.bsky.social and Natasha Grzincic. Open access: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining

This article examines how media workers tackle equity and diversity from below via collective bargaining. In a review of 69 contracts negotiated during the new media union movement’s most active years...

journals.publishing.umich.edu

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 11

New publication out in Media Industries looking at how CBAs are used to address issues of equity and diversity in digital media workplaces.

"Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining." Co-authored w/ @nicolecohen.bsky.social & Natasha Grzincic.

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Jul 28

I assume there’s a club and that cake is served 😹

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Jul 28

Big News from the East Coast: in January 2026 I’ll be joining the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as an Assistant Professor (LTA) in Sociology.

I can’t wait to join UNBSJ’s wonderful community.

Thank you to everyone who helped me get here.

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · May 21

How about Team? Don’t you love Teams?

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · May 1

📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚

In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 1

cultural work is work

writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK

over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics

happy may day!

Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · Apr 30

NEW: 88 museum workers in Louisville are unionizing with @uaw.org.

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of collective bargaining unit. The employer is the Speed Art Museum located in Louisville, Kentucky. there are 88 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full time and regular part time employees.

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · May 1

📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚

In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Apr 25

Toronto: get tickets to the launch of the Zine “Movies Men Ruined for Me” at The Revue on May 30th!

I have a piece in it about terrible millennial men trying to seduce me to American Beauty (1999)

revuecinema.ca/films/revue-...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · Apr 25

USA: After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience www.fastcompany.com/91321619/aft...

After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience

The latest phase of the Starbucks Workers United campaign includes sit-ins at stores, where union members have been arrested. They say the escalation is necessary to call attention to their fight.

www.fastcompany.com

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Apr 15

Wild to me when people are like:

The economy is over here 👉

👈 Everything else is over there

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