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June 11, 2025

Business as Unusual: Risk, Research and Rethinking Productivity with Dave Angus
University of Manitoba: “What’s the Big Idea?”
Welcome to What's the Big Idea? I'm your host, Michael Bennaroch, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. Today's guest is someone who has spent his career helping Winnipeg and Manitoba dream bigger and think smarter about growth. Dave Angus is the President of Johnson Group, a former, longtime President and CEO of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and a tireless advocate for business-led innovation and collaboration. Dave is also about to become the University of Manitoba's 15th Chancellor. I couldn't be more excited to wrap up Season 3 with him as our guest. We discussed the forces that shape economic growth in Manitoba and across Canada, from trade policy to post-secondary partnerships. I asked Dave how Canada can build stronger economic ties beyond the United States, what kinds of initiatives actually boost productivity, and how we can better match our highly educated workforce with the jobs that need them. Stay tuned for a great conversation.

Teen injured in sword attack at Brandon high school
Winnipeg Free Press
A 16-year-old male was taken into custody in relation to a sword attack at Neelin High School Tuesday afternoon that prompted a lockdown of the building.

RFK Jr. ousts CDC's entire vaccine advisory committee
CBC
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

Kennedy’s firing of U.S. immunization committee is worrisome, Canadian scientists say
Globe and Mail
Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of an immunization advisory committee south of the border is worrisome.

Trump team considering cutting education funding to California as fight with Newsom grows
Yahoo
The Trump administration is considering cutting federal education funding to California as tensions between the White House and Governor Gavin Newsom continue to escalate.

US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump’s wrath?
The Guardian
In 2018, a teaching hospital at Harvard took down 30 portraits of distinguished doctors and researchers affiliated with the hospital. The portraits reinforced a perception that “white men are in charge”, a professor of medicine told the Boston Globe, and were relegated to less prominent areas of the hospital. Some students and faculty welcomed the decision, or were indifferent.

Australian universities hesitate on antisemitism definition amid academic freedom concerns
The Guardian
Months after the release of a new definition of antisemitism, a string of Australian universities are yet to adopt it amid concerns it may contravene academic freedom.

Feds announce up to 6,000 more Canada Summer Jobs as youths struggle to find work
CBC
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu announced Friday afternoon the federal government is creating up to 6,000 more spots in the Canada Summer Jobs program for young people — a move that comes as many struggle to find work.

Gen Z is facing the worst youth unemployment rate in decades. Here is how it's different
CBC
Graduation cap in hand, Sarah Chung is posing for photos in school regalia ahead of her convocation ceremony. The campus atmosphere is joyful, but what comes next is sobering: this honours student is graduating into one of the worst youth labour markets seen in decades.

Protests against Trump are spreading — and creating a labour movement
CBC
While much of the attention on immigration raids and the protests against them have been focused on Los Angeles, rallies are popping up in cities across the United States as protest and labour movements against the Trump administration continue to grow.

Deaf and hard of hearing organizations call for Canadian Hearing Services to get back to the table and end the 7-week strike
CUPE Ontario
Missed medical appointments, missing hearing aids, and all manner of services for Deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Ontarians missing in action: that is the result of a seven week long strike at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS). Now two leading Deaf and hard of hearing advocacy groups are calling attention to the deleterious impact on their already marginalized communities.

Canadian slavery- Then and now
Rabble
Canadians like to think our country has a good record on slavery. After all, the narrative goes, Canada was the terminus for the Underground Railway, the land of freedom where escaped American slaves could find refuge from the obscene horrors of American chattel slavery. And modern Canada, we are tempted to boast, is a champion of human rights, a righteous opponent of slavery in all its contemporary forms. Turns out the real story is more complicated and less noble.

British dads are going ‘on strike’ for better parental leave
The Conversation
UK campaign group The Dad Shift is staging a “dad strike” on June 11, to protest the poor paternity leave available to fathers in the UK. Fathers and other parents are being asked to “picket or pickup” – to leave work and join protests at government buildings, or use this time to do the school or nursery run.

June 10, 2025

Sioux Valley to spend $2M on portable classrooms
Winnipeg Free Press
The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation will invest more than $2 million in portable classrooms as 90 students will be transferred from Sioux Valley High School in Brandon to the community in the fall.

Scammers are using AI to enrol fake students in online classes, then steal college financial aid
CTV News
It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College?

She came to Canada for university, but she'd never been accepted. The scam cost her $7K
CBC
With an admission letter to a Quebec university in hand, Aminata flew from Benin, west Africa, to Montreal with $2,000 in her pocket to fulfil her dream of pursuing higher education in Canada.

Some internationally educated nurses feel set up to fail as regulator warns of patient safety concerns
CBC
Nurses of African descent are being reported to Manitoba's regulatory body at disproportionately high levels, often prematurely, a national nursing organization alleges.

At least nine people killed in shooting at Austrian school, suspect also dead
Globe and Mail
Nine people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, authorities said.

Canada Post rejects union terms for arbitration as both sides enter bitter stalemate
CTV News
A government push to steer Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 mail workers toward common ground hit a big pothole Monday.

State of Negotiations: Canada Post’s Demands - Fact Sheet
CUPW
Now that the extension of our collective agreements has expired, we have started a nationwide overtime ban, and Canada Post has tabled its “best and final offers,” it is important to remind members of some of the major issues still left to be resolved at the bargaining table.

Hundreds of striking WSIB workers rally in downtown Toronto after talks break down
CBC
Hundreds of striking workers at Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board rallied in downtown Toronto on Monday, calling on their employer to find a "fair compromise" on outstanding issues.

Workers’ Rights Are Collapsing Globally. Canada Is No Exception
The Maple
On June 2, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its 12th annual Global Rights Index. The yearly report tracks violations of workers’ and union rights around the world. Its findings are troubling, to say the least.

Labor unions around US demand release of union leader arrested in LA protest
The Guardian
Labor unions around the US rallied together on Monday to demand the release of a labor leader arrested and injured during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids in Los Angeles.

‘Everybody Stood Up’: Why a Union Leader’s Arrest Galvanized California Democrats on Immigration
KQED
The union leader federal agents detained at an immigration protest in Los Angeles last week is well known to California’s Democratic leadership from his years of activism in and out of the Capitol.

SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Contract Deal With Video Game Companies After Nearly a Year on Strike
MSN
In an agreement that could eventually mark the end of a nearly yearlong strike, SAG-AFTRA and major video game companies have reached a tentative deal on a contract agreement.

June 9, 2025

School divisions stock up on naloxone
Winnipeg Free Press
Some city school divisions are stocking up on naloxone kits and training teachers to administer the antidote to opioids.

Manitoba to pay for students to travel to war sites in Europe
Winnipeg Free Press
The Manitoba government is sending high school students to Juno Beach and other historic battlfields to increase their awareness about the world wars.

‘General acceptance’: A year of banning cellphones in Canadian classrooms
Winnipeg Free Press
Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year.

Faculty association worried about new UPEI budget as international student enrolment drops
CBC
Members of the UPEI Faculty Association are sharing concerns about the newly released budget as the school grapples with a drop in international enrolment after the federal government introduced tighter restrictions on study permits.

Canadian universities grapple with evaluating students amid AI cheating fears
CBC
Canada's post-secondary institutions are looking for new ways to assess students as they respond to fears about AI being used to cheat on exams.

Academic freedom is not ‘free’ – especially for Black women scholars
Rabble
In this new anti-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion environment, Black women, and particularly Black women feminist scholars, suddenly find themselves at tremendous personal and financial risk due to increasing attacks on their research, expertise and voice by university administrators, colleagues and worse, students.

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
New York Times
In January 2024, Maura Finkelstein finished teaching her first classes of the semester, unaware they would be her last as a professor. This was on a Wednesday at Muhlenberg College, a campus stippled with red doors meant to represent both hospitality and the college’s Lutheran roots.

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced Into Exile
New York Times
In a former bank building, away from Vienna’s palaces and opera houses, Central European University lives in exile.

Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland seek to join Harvard lawsuit against Trump over funding
The Baltimore Banner
The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland are seeking to join 16 other colleges in filing a friend-of-the-court brief that backs Harvard University in its legal battle with the Trump administration over federal funding.

The big, beautiful bill is bad news for student loans
Vox
If the “big, beautiful bill,” President Donald Trump’s signature legislative priority, eventually becomes law, it would gut some social programs that many people rely on. As my colleague Dylan Scott wrote in a thorough explainer, the package, which House Republicans passed last month, could result in millions of people losing their health care because of proposed work requirements on Medicaid.

Warren urges Department of Education IG to investigate DOGE access to student loan data
ABC News
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is requesting the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General review the Department of Government Efficiency's alleged "infiltration" of the agency's internal federal student loan database.

Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance
The Guardian
During the first 100-plus days of his presidency, Donald Trump has done his damnedest to remake the US in his image. Fearing Hurricane Donald, a host of universities, law firms, newspapers, public schools and Fortune 500 companies have rushed to do his bidding, bowing before he even comes calling. Other institutions cower, in hopes that they will go unnoticed.

DHL Express Canada locks out 2,100 workers as Unifor launches strike in response
Globe and Mail
The union representing workers at DHL Express Canada says the company has locked them out amid a simmering dispute that adds uncertainty to nationwide parcel delivery – and could test new federal laws on the use of replacement workers.

Union sues Health Canada over alleged failure to protect agriculture workers
CTV News
A new lawsuit filed against Health Canada alleges the agency has unlawfully failed to protect agricultural workers from the harms of pesticides.

Minnesota state workers say they’re ready to strike over return-to-office — and other labor news
Minnesota Reformer
State employees picketing outside negotiations between Minnesota budget officials and their union on Wednesday said they were absolutely willing to strike over Gov. Tim Walz’s part-time return-to-office order that took effect this week.

June 6, 2025

From doubt to degree: students rewarded after post-COVID pivot
Winnipeg Free Press
Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, both Jennifer Breddam and Deanna Garand never dreamed they would go to university — let alone graduate.

Ontario Bill 33 undermines university autonomy and access to education, critics say
Globe and Mail
Student and faculty groups are criticizing an Ontario bill that would force universities to make admission decisions on the basis of what the government defines as “merit,” arguing such overreach would undermine the autonomy of postsecondary institutions.

OCUFA Concerned About Interference in University Governance and Distraction from Funding Crisis
OCUFA
The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) voiced grave concerns about legislation introduced in the Ontario legislature to update governance rules for colleges and universities. While OCUFA supports necessary “housekeeping” efforts like ensuring gender-inclusive language, the organization highlights significant worries about governmental interference in university autonomy.

With many despairing academics packing it in, who will solve the problem of the universities?
The Spectator
Whatever happened to universities, beacons of the liberal enlightenment? Well, according to both these authors, they are in deep trouble. Cary Nelson is a distinguished literature academic who for six years was president of the American Association of University Professors, set up in 1915 by John Dewey to advance standards of excellence and academic freedom. His book Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Anti-Semitic Assault on Basic Principles, published last year, has now been supplemented by this powerful thesis published by the Jewish Quarterly.

Your brain on AI
Globe and Mail
After Michael Gerlich published a study this year, his inbox was flooded. He got so many messages, mostly from teachers, he wondered about closing his account. This was unusual for the professor, who teaches at SBS Swiss Business School in Zurich, where he heads the rather staid-sounding Center for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability.

Opinion: Graduation a time of celebration and a time of concern
Calgary Herald
Congratulations to all our graduates. They have worked hard to reach this important milestone and deserve to enjoy this exciting and meaningful moment.

Harvard files legal challenge over Trump’s ban on entry of foreign students
Globe and Mail
Harvard University is challenging President Donald Trump’s move to block foreign students from coming to the United States to attend the Ivy League school, calling it illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands.

Province approves regulation changes to lure U.S. docs to Manitoba
Winnipeg Free Press
More U.S.-trained physicians are expected to join the Manitoba workforce, following provincial efforts to streamline recruitment amid an ongoing doctor shortage.

Nurse college must be able to pivot: health minister
Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba’s health minister says the regulatory body for nursing is blocking internationally educated nurses who want to practise in the province and driving them away.

Unemployment ‘little changed’ in May with slight rise to 7%: StatCan
Global News
For the third straight month, Canada’s unemployment rate has increased as the U.S. trade war develops and businesses face economic challenges from tariffs.

Low income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever
CCPA
Canadian households spent an average of $76,750 on goods and services in 2023, a substantial increase of 14.3 per cent over 2021. This boost in spending was largely driven by the surge in inflation (up 10.9 per cent) over this period which took the wind out of the sails of the post-pandemic recovery and hit low income households hard.

Why Canada Post talks have stalled after months of negotiations with unionized workers
Globe and Mail
The labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers – a conflict that has dragged on for 19 months – has effectively become a contest of wills.

Inside the Long, Hard Battle Between Canada Post and CUPW
The Tyee
Contract negotiations for postal workers are dragging past the 18-month mark as the corporation and union battle over the future of Canada Post.

DHL Express Canada serves lockout notice to members
Unifor
DHL Express Canada issued a lockout notice to the union yesterday, June 4, 2025 — four days before the deadline to reach a deal.

U.S. job growth slows in May as tariff uncertainty continues, unemployment rate steady at 4.2%
Globe and Mail
U.S. job growth slowed in May amid headwinds from tariff uncertainty, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2 per cent, potentially giving the Federal Reserve cover to delay resuming interest rate cuts for a while.

Judge temporarily blocks Noem from killing TSA workers’ collective bargaining deal
The Hill
A union scored an initial victory in its challenge to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from stripping collective bargaining rights from employees at the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).

Nationwide strikes highlight France’s struggle to close its gender pay gap
Courthouse News Service
On Thursday, France’s largest workers’ union led over 150 strikes across the country calling for a rollback on the country’s controversial retirement reforms, better working conditions and increased protection of public services.

June 5, 2025

The benefits of basic research in universities
Winnipeg Free Press
A few weeks ago, I told my eldest son’s wife that I planned to write and publish after retirement from the University of Winnipeg. She didn’t understand, because she thought the job of university professors was just to teach.

Council of River Heights students has cabinet minister’s ear on value of AI, other tech in education
Winnipeg Free Press
River Heights teens want their high schools to embrace technology — the possibilities of artificial intelligence, in particular — rather than ban it.

Relaxed nursing requirements jeopardize patient safety, Manitoba regulator warns health minister
Winnipeg Free Press
The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba says the province is putting labour mobility and its support for interprovincial free trade ahead of patient safety and lives.

Regulator criticizes relaxed labour mobility rules, says some Manitoba nurses can't perform 'very basic' tasks
CBC
Manitoba's nursing regulator says some of the province's newest nurses struggle with basic tasks like taking blood pressure or administering medication, as the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba speaks out against a recent ministerial order to remove what it calls a guardrail for patient safety in the interest of labour mobility.

Opinion: Five ways Canadian universities can regain public confidence
Financial Post
Polls show sharply declining public confidence in universities. One reason may be the degree to which they have become politically estranged from mainstream society. Despite North Americans having a near 50/50 left-right split, among university faculty it is about 90/10, with many social science and humanities disciplines over 95 per cent left-wing. By contrast 50 years ago universities had the same political diversity as society at large.

Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says
Reuters
The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that it believes Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.

Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department, court rules
Reuters
A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff.

Manitoba Government Launches Campaign to Recruit Health Professionals from the United States
Province of Manitoba
The Manitoba government launched a bold new marketing campaign to attract and recruit health-care workers from several American states, Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced today.

Manitoba launches campaign to recruit health-care workers from U.S. states facing political challenges
CBC
The Manitoba government has launched a campaign to attract health-care workers from U.S. border states as the province continues to face medical staffing shortages and political tensions have some American medical professionals looking north.

Manitoba cabinet minister harassed college employee in past job, external investigation concluded
CBC
Recently appointed federal cabinet minister Rebecca Chartrand harassed a former employee at Winnipeg's Red River College Polytechnic over a period of several months in 2019, according to an external investigation commissioned by the college and conducted by a Winnipeg law firm.

Canada's largest private sector union calls for retaliatory tariffs against U.S.
CBC
The U.S. just hit Canada with another tariff gut punch, and Canada's largest private sector union says it's time to hit back with the same force.

B.C. port supervisors’ union ratifies new four-year deal with maritime employers
Globe and Mail
Maritime employers in British Columbia and the union representing port supervisors say they have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, after a dispute that saw workers locked out of container terminals last year.

CUPW Files Unfair Labour Practice Complaint
CUPW
On Tuesday June 3, 2025, CUPW filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Canada Post under sections 94 (1) and 97 (1) of the Canada Labour Code. The complaint stems from the employer bargaining directly with members, knowingly interfering with the Union’s exclusive bargaining rights and purposefully trying to discredit the reputation of the Union.

Fired federal workers say HHS, DOGE violated federal privacy law, mishandled personnel records
Fierce Healthcare
A new class-action lawsuit asserts the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired civil servants based on incorrect internal personnel records.

June 4, 2025

Province’s French-education bureau under fire after image offensive to Muslims distributed in Grade 12 exam booklet
Winnipeg Free Press
The French education bureau is facing backlash for distributing hundreds of Grade 12 provincial exams that contain an infamous caricature of the founder of Islam.

University of Ottawa appoints first female president in its 177 year history
CTV News
Marie-Eve Sylvestre will be the first woman to lead the University of Ottawa since its inception in 1848.

The C150 Research Chairs program is ending, but its scholars are staying rooted in Canada
University Affairs
When we imagine the future, our brains engage the same neural networks as when we remember the past.

Data vs MAGA
University Affairs
On the January 20, 2025, presidential inauguration day in the United States, academics and librarians across North America were glued to their laptops — not watching the proceedings, but backing up vulnerable information. Since President Donald Trump’s election in November 2024, they had been duplicating government web pages, interactive tools and datasets in case the new administration decided to change, delete or irretrievably conceal them.

Militant Grad Workers Build Union Power to Fight Attacks on Education and Labor
Truthout
A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT, Duke, Minnesota, and many more. According to one study, as of January 2024, around 38 percent of graduate student employees were represented by unions, with over 150,000 graduate workers across 81 units.

Negotiations Update: Union Responding to Canada Post’s Request for Forced Vote
CUPW
On May 30, Canada Post sent a letter to Minister Patty Hajdu, responsible for Jobs and Families, asking her to use her power under section 108.1 of the Canada Labour Code to force a vote on the Employer’s latest offers for both bargaining units.

Jobs minister asks Canada Post, union back to the bargaining table
BNN Bloomberg
Federal Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu has asked Canada Post and the union representing its workers back to the bargaining table, alongside federal mediators.

Media Advisory – Canada’s food workers union sues Health Canada over pesticide safety failures
UFCW
On Sunday, June 8^th at 3:00 PM, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada and Ecojustice will be holding a media event regarding their new legal case challenging Health Canada’s unlawful failures to protect agricultural workers by not enforcing safety data sheet requirements.

Trump Administration Fires 13 Members of Key Education Research Board, Citing ‘Partisan Influence’
Time
The Trump Administration fired all 13 Biden-appointed members of a key federal education research board last month, a move that drew sharp rebuke from former members amid the Administration’s ongoing campaign to dismantle the Department of Education.

U.S. private payrolls growth comes in far below expectations in May
Globe and Mail
U.S. private payrolls increased far less than expected in May, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday.

Iberdrola unions call on more than 9,000 workers in Spain to strike
Reuters
Unions at Iberdrola (IBE.MC), opens new tab called on 9,000 workers in Spain to strike on Friday to demand higher salaries and fewer working hours, in what they said would be the first such stoppage in the company's more than 100-year history.

June 3, 2025

Wildfire-affected schools exempt from Grade 12 exams: province
Winnipeg Free Press
Grade 12 provincial tests and other end-of-year exams hang in the balance as displaced teachers and teenagers wait out wildfire threats in northern Manitoba.

Too many schools still asking why, not how to implement Indigenous curriculum, says son of late TRC chair
CBC
When Niigaan Sinclair visits schools, he always asks, "How many of you have an orange shirt in your closet that you pull out at least once a year?"

Edmonton Public Schools cuts number of seclusion rooms, but confinement continues
CBC
Advocates demanding an end to the use of seclusion rooms say they're pleased the Edmonton public school division has decommissioned more than 60 of them in the last year.

Surprise Student Loan Reprieve For 450,000 Borrowers Announced By Department Of Education
Forbes
Hundreds of thousands of federal student loan borrowers who were facing potentially imminent seizure of their Social Security benefits got some good news this week after the Department of Education announced a halt to the new collections threats.

Manitoba Hydro support workers looking to go on strike
CityNews
Manitoba Hydro support workers might be going on strike soon.

Steelworkers union says incoming doubling of tariffs will be devastating
CBC
Saskatchewan's steel and aluminum industry is under threat once again, with U.S. President Donald Trump's doubling of tariffs on their products set to come into effect Wednesday.

How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing
The Maple
When M.H. and her neighbours faced regular water shutoffs, they went door to door in their 12-storey condo building. One of her neighbours was involved with the Toronto Centre Tenant Union, and suggested they canvas the building to see if others were also annoyed.

Video game workers reach historic tentative agreement with Microsoft
UNI Global Union
More than 300 quality assurance (QA) workers at Microsoft’s video game subsidiary ZeniMax Media have reached a tentative agreement with the company, marking a first-of-its-kind contract for the U.S. video game industry.

Microsoft Lays Off Thousands of Workers
24/7
Microsoft Corp. has quietly laid off thousands of workers in the past two months. No one outside the company seems to know why. It may mean nothing at all. Microsoft has 228,000 people.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it move forward with mass layoffs of federal workforce
CBS News
President Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to move forward with its plans to lay off thousands of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies while a legal battle over the president's plans to drastically cut the size of the government moves forward.

EBay Aims to Bust Trading Card Union with 200 Layoffs
Labor Notes
More than two years after voting in a union, the 220 workers at TCGplayer, the eBay-owned online marketplace for trading cards, hoped they might be getting close to securing a first contract. Instead, they’re fighting to save their jobs.

Take It from Turkish Workers: You Don’t Want a Strongman
Labor Notes
What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, should be a warning flashing red to workers elsewhere.

Hospitality workers experiencing 'horrendous harassment'
BBC
Hospitality workers have described harassment in the industry as "horrendous".

As government cuts bite, public service unions can use ‘soft power’ as well as strikes to win support
The Conversation
Cuts to the public service, the decision to halt all pay equity claims, and the tight 2025 budget mean public service workers are facing an uncertain future.
Crew members in Kentucky have walked off the set of the low-budget film Cipher, starring Terrence Howard, in protest after the production declined to secure a union contract with IATSE.