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Boric takes the Presidency in Chile: Red Review #37 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-seventh edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the USA, Canada, Uruguay, China...
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Michael Laxer
- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
Loblaw: Profits up, wages not
Loblaw Companies Ltd's "year-long pandemic winning streak marked by surging sales and profits" continues. But while profits may be up,...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 3, 2021
- 6 min
2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 23, 2020
- 5 min
Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
Outrage as Loblaw profits and dividends rise, but workers left out
Profits and dividends up, pandemic pay gone, and 12 week Dominion strike ends with little improvement for workers. Many took to social...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Dominion strike talks break down as Loblaw refuses to budge on offer
“After ten weeks the company has not made one single improvement to their initial three-year offer,”: Unifor Assistant to the National...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
Labour actions in Alberta and Newfoundland met with legal and police threats
This week saw two examples of rising labour militancy, one in Alberta and one in Newfoundland. Both were met with very rapid intervention...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
The Weston Family: A century of union-busting and price-fixing
By Doug Nesbitt The current Newfoundland grocery strike against Loblaws & billionaire Galen Weston Jr. is the latest fight in a 100+ year...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
Dominion workers expand Newfoundland strike action to other Loblaw facilities
"Today is the day Loblaws is going to realize it's not going to be business as usual here in Newfoundland anymore". After nearly two...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
"Human solidarity chain" formed by Dominion workers at No Frills in St. John's
The striking Newfoundland workers are asking for public solidarity in their fight for fairer wages and working hours. Striking Dominion...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
"Mr. Weston, give your employees a fair, decent, living wage": Striking Dominion workers
A new TV ad in support of striking Dominion workers in Newfoundland calls out parent company Loblaw and billionaire company chairman...