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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

AUPE survey on pandemic needs

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The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) periodically publishes a magazine ( Direct Impact ). The fall 2021 issue (not yet online at...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Trucker shortages about jobs quality, not worker shortage

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Time magazine recently ran a short analysis of the cause of America’s shortage of truck drivers. Presently, supply chain shortages are comp...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: Documentary on 9-to-5 Movement

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Netflix is presently showing a documentary entitled 9to5: The Story of a Movement. This documentary traces the development of the 9 to 5 soc...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

2019 workplace injuries and fatalities report

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Sean Tucker and Anya Keefe from the University of Regina have released their annual roll up of Canadian workplace injuries and fatalities u...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula were union organizers?

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I ran across this interesting article last year about the origins of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in the United States (which has merged ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: Justice League of America

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I ran across a 1964 issue of the Justice League of America (JLA) comic book that appeared to be about unionizing superheroes. The cover show...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: More Brooklyn 99

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It looks like Brooklyn 99 will be using the Policeman’s Benevolent Association as a recurring antagonist in its final season. In Episode 3 (...