How BC’s Labour Laws Help Gig Workers Organize

Published August 11, 2025 Analysis

Workers at Amazon and Uber, two companies notoriously difficult to organize, have just formed unions in BC. What makes its labour environment so special?

While workers walk the picket lines, DHL brings in scabs by the busload

Published June 18, 2025 News

The courier company has threatened to suspend service across Canada as of Friday, when a new law barring replacement workers takes effect

WestJet asked non-union staff to provide scab labour in case of Calgary, Vancouver strike

Published June 28, 2022 News

Calgary and Vancouver check-in clerks have seen their wages frozen since 2017, union says

An Oil Company Was Angry Police Would Not Stop Picketing Workers. The CEO Claims Scott Moe’s People Offered to Help.

Published October 20, 2020 New

Letter from CEO of Co-op Refinery claims Saskatchewan government offered to step in if the company lost ‘confidence’ in local police

Canada creates auto sector jobs in US & Mexico as 1,000 GM workers laid off in Canada

Published April 30, 2015

Here’s a question for you: Why is Canada spending half a billion dollars helping German car makers create jobs in Mexico and the United States at the same time as thousands of manufacturing jobs are being eliminated right here at home? On Thursday, 1,000 auto workers at General Motors learned they were the latest ones […]

The Conservative economic record: 665,000 missing jobs

Published May 9, 2014

Employers eliminated 30,900 full-time jobs last month and 25,600 Canadians left the labour force altogether, Statistics Canada job numbers released Friday show. With an increase of just 2,000 part-time jobs for a net loss of 28,900 jobs, Erin Weir, an economist with United Steelworkers, puts the bad news in context. “This large decline in employment coincided […]