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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.

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#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.

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Chantal Mancini, PhD @uniongrrl.bsky.social · Aug 18

Air Canada has been “encouraged by the federal government’s pattern of intervention in labour disputes…there’s a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card now, with the use of section 107.”— @stephross.bsky.social

#canlab

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Aug 18

Defying an order to end the strike, the union's president proclaimed:

"If we stick together, they can’t fire us all."

Here's what Air Canada flight attendants are fighting for:

pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...

What Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Are Fighting For

Defying an order to end the strike, union president Wesley Lesosky proclaimed,

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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 18

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order.

“This is the natural result of the repeated use of Section 107,” said @stephross.bsky.social. “As soon as workers have some power to actually move their employers, the government steps in.”

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

#canlab

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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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · Jul 31

Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada!

📅 Sunday August 31
⏰3 pm - 5 pm
📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton

RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

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Brock Labour Studies @brocklabour.bsky.social · Jul 15

The 2026 CAWLS annual conference will be held June 3-5, 2026 in Winnipeg, hosted by the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba.

Details and CfP to follow.

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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · Jul 9

📚 Coming soon from BTL:

🔸 Althusser’s crime
🔸 Graphic anti-fascism
🔸 Labour + art
🔸 Cuba and Canada
🔸 Criminology rethought
🔸 Women in unions
🔸 Palestinian liberation = feminist issue

👉 tinyurl.com/4twdfbck

@peggynash.bsky.social @jwhite54.bsky.social @kdubin.bsky.social @stephross.bsky.social

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UBC Press @ubcpress.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations to @stephross.bsky.social and @profsavage.bsky.social!

"Shifting Gears" won the 2025 Leo Panitch Book Prize, celebrating the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. Thank you to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies for honouring this book! 🎉

Cover: Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics, by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage. Illustration: tire tracks on a gritty road. Beside the cover, it reads "Congratulations! Winner, 2025 Leo Panitch Book Prize, Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies."

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UBC Press @ubcpress.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Shifting Gears" tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships. bit.ly/43YFIx2

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · May 31

An incredible honour for @profsavage.bsky.social
& me to receive the Canadian Assn for Work & Labour Studies' Leo Panitch Book Prize for best book in Canadian #LabourStudies in 2025, named for our mentor. So grateful to our peers for this recognition #canlab #cdnpoli

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LabourStart Canada @labourstartcane.bsky.social · May 31

Remember when we interviewed the award-winning authors? Listen to it here: www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · May 31

Thank you so much—missed you this week

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · May 30

Thrilled to have Shifting Gears recognized with the Leo Panitch Book Prize for 2025, honouring the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. A heartfelt thank you to CAWLS and to my co-author and longtime collaborator @stephross.bsky.social.

www.ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears

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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · May 15

With negotiations at a standstill, Canada Post workers could be on strike as early as next week. @stephross.bsky.social says the bargaining climate may be tougher this time around.

#Labour #CanadaPost #McMasterExperts

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Canada Post hits pause on negotiations with union as May deadline approaches

Canada Post workers could be heading back to the picket lines, but they might find negotiating conditions far less favourable. Read more.

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Apr 10

Register soon for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, being held at the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University May 28-30, 2025.

CAWLS members get discounted rates!

cawls.ca/en/2025-annu...

#canlab #labourstudies

2025 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies

The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · Apr 2

Do union endorsements make a difference in election campaigns? Daniel Westlake and I weigh in, showing how union satisfaction can amplify the influence of endorsements at the ballot box.

theconversation.com/do-union-end...

#canlab #cdnpoli #elxn45

Do union endorsements make a difference in election campaigns?

Not all union endorsements carry the same weight, but they can play a strategically critical role in election campaigns.

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Mar 25

Join Mac Labour Studies and Workers Arts & Heritage Centre April 7 for Off The Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton. Untold stories of #hamont revealed by our students

#canlab #labourstudies #CommunityEngagement

Register here, as space is limited docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton

In collaboration with WAHC, students of McMaster Labour Studies created songs, poems, and other artistic media on story maps to tell suppressed stories of injustice and resilience in Hamilton. Visitor...

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Mar 19

Join us TODAY March 19 at 1pm ET for the our 2024-25 webinar series w/
@mfauvel.bsky.social on union-community coalition-building and lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement. Register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Coalition-building: Rethinking Alliances between Community-based Organizations and Unions . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ...

Based on activist ethnographic research on the $15 minimum wage coalition in Quebec, this presentation illustrates how participation in labour-community coalitions transforms the practices of communit...

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Mar 6

Join Mac Labour Studies March 19 for our last 2024-25 webinar w/ @mfauvel.bsky.social
on union-community coalition-building + lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement

Scan the QR code or click the link 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · Feb 20

New from @policyalternatives.ca: Amazon has no intention of respecting the labour relations systems in any Canadian province, and will actively work to undermine them. The labour movement must respond in kind. By Niall Harney and @whosestreets.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Amazon’s Quebec closures are a wake-up call for Canada’s labour movement - CCPA

Amazon’s January 22 closure of all seven of its warehouses in Quebec is a shocking and unprecedented attack on North American workers. Not only does this decision leave as many as 4,500 workers sudden...

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Feb 20

Chapter 12 in Paths to Union Renewal is on the Steelworkers' Humanity Fund, which has been a basis for international solidarity work with miners in Mexico and Chile utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.....

Paths to Union Renewal - University of Toronto Press

Canadian Experiences

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Feb 20

Steve Babson on organizing solidarity amongst North American unions, with a focus on Mexico

library.fes.de/libalt/journ...

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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Feb 20

A few other possibilities: Ayres, Defying Conventional Wisdom: books.google.ca/books?id=05-...

Defying Conventional Wisdom

This book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians, and with continuing relevance to policy-making processes. As the first major work on the o...

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · Feb 20

Tens of thousands of city employees, including workers in shelters, long-term care homes and public health, could go on strike in just over two weeks.

Tens of thousands of city workers cleared to go on strike early next month

The city of Toronto received a no-board report from the province Wednesday, triggering a 17-day countdown toward a possible strike or lock out.

www.thestar.com

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Labor Action Tracker @laboraction.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨The Labor Action Tracker 2024 Annual Report drops tomorrow at 7am EST!🚨

Tomorrow morning we will be releasing our annual report compiling all of our 2024 work stoppage data - stay tuned to learn more about worker action in the U.S. over the past year!

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