Dr. Sean O’Brady is an assistant professor at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. He is also a researcher at Cornell University's Ithaca Co...

When most people—including policymakers—complain about a lack of affordability, they think of prices being too high. But affordability is the outcome of a race between prices and incomes. After all, g...

This working paper explores how social dialogue is shaping the use of AI and algorithmic tools in workplaces across five continents. Through case studies, it highlights how worker representatives are ...

Union organizers at the university say this is part of a broader trend towards corporatization of the public institution.

Labour groups are angry over frequent use of power to end walkouts.

VANCOUVER—The B.C. Labour Relations Board (LRB) has sided with Unifor and awarded union certification to workers at the Amazon facility in Delta, B.C.“Workers at Amazon organized against very difficul...

Will AI make call center jobs obsolete? While this may sound revolutionary, it’s far from the reality businesses face today—and, in my opinion, in the foreseeable future.

Income inequality and radical right parties have both been on the rise in Western democracies, yet few studies explore the linkages between the two – despite prominent arguments about voters feelin...

By Brad Lavigne This May, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) asked Counsel Public Affairs to do a deep dive into Canadian opinions and attitudes on post-seconda

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This study analyses the relationship between academic capitalism and employment precarity. Drawing on two cross-national sources of survey data, we compare academics' experiences with job insecurity ...

The Liberals and Conservatives are both promising income tax cuts. But 9.6 million low-income Canadians won’t benefit.

Affordability and neoliberalism

Bill 89, as Quebec’s CAQ government readily admits, was inspired by the actions of the federal Trudeau government, which in the last six months of 2024 repeatedly used a newly cooked-up reinterpretati...

Amazon is moving to a third-party delivery and in turn closing its seven warehouses in Quebec — with 1,700 regular employees set to be laid off between now and March. Amazon has warehouses in Laval, L...

'You can't buy back a relationship': When disputes like that involving Canada Post subside, the hard work continues, say three experts

Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is sending the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) to the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

There is an unwillingness to entertain a future in which Canada Post’s role can evolve to serve the needs of Canadians. The degradation of delivery work by Amazon is accepted as a fait accompli, inste...

Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resourc...

Le conflit pourrait encore durer plusieurs jours, selon le ministre fédéral du Travail Steven MacKinnon.

#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.

Ghost Management at Work: A Practical Guide for the Investigation and Mapping of Health Affairs / Ghost management à l’oeuvre: Guide pratique pour

General Motors is laying off nearly 1,000 workers worldwide, most in the U.S., as it looks to streamline operations, a source told Reuters on Friday.

On Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon ordered an end to employer lockouts of their workers at the ports of B.C and Montreal

For Immediate Release – OTTAWA – Some 55,000 postal workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) went on a nationwide strike on Friday, November 15 at 12:01am ET. After a year of...