Canada’s workers rise up! w/Emily Leedham

28 thoughts on “Canada’s workers rise up! w/Emily Leedham”

1. Canada….always copying what the US wants them to copy….the US to the North Of the US….Trudeau just follows directions from the DC neocons….the vassal US state to the North…poor Canada…like Mexico….it's far from God…close to yankeestan….

2. In the early 70s, I worked in a gold mine in Yellowknife and was a member of the Teamsters International Union. I was paid an excellent wage with good benefits. I now live stateside and have spent my whole life watching the destruction of the unions and the working man ( woman) slowly being turned into an economic slave with no rights or benefits. With the fascist movements both here and Canada we are at a pivotal point in history and if the working man does not wake up and recognize the culture wars for what they are, a move to divide and conquer the workers, and come together we will end up in a situation where life in the old Soviet Union will look good.

3. Canadians are going to have to be the ones to show us Americans how to do it. The left in America is rooting for you!

4. F**K THE NEW WORLD ORDER,F**K THE WORLD ECONOMIC FURM AND F**K THE BANKERS ENSLAVING US ALL,RISE UP AND FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!

5. Born in Saskatoon, retired in Mexico. Best wishes to all workers, throughout the world.
   Local 250 SEIU forever!

6. Tell Canada to stop smuggling fentanyl into the USA.

7. Canada, USA's 51st state.

8. This girl likely is a clueless NDP supporter, who are just as bad as Turdeau.

9. After 15 years being out of print, the book Confessions of a Union Buster has been re-released. This "New Activist Edition" of the breakthrough book includes a new Foreword by legendary union organizer, Bob Muehlenkamp.
   
   Marty Levitt, the Union Buster the book is about, passed away in 2004, so now NONE of the money from the sale of the book will go to him. Instead, proceeds will go to co-author Terry Conrow Toczynski, the pro-union activist who spent five years writing the book (Levitt didn't actually write it).
   
   This book is a must read for organizers, union activists, supporters, or anyone who wants to learn first hand about the disgusting, immoral, and often illegal methods union busters use to try and stop hard working citizens from forming unions.
   
   Aside from all that, a movie adaptation is also in the works, which 7-time Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner, another legend in the labor movement, signed on to Executive Produce months before he passed away. His family is keeping his name attached as the project was particularly important to him.
   
   Please buy the book, and spread the word!
   
   Hardback: https://bookshop.org/p/books/confessions-of-a-union-buster-martin-j-levitt/18343116
   
   Paperback: https://bookshop.org/p/books/confessions-of-a-union-buster-new-activist-edition-terry-conrow-toczynski/17697774

10. As a CUPE education worker, the one day strike was one of the most exciting and inspiring labour actions I had ever taken part of. Then the union settled for a $1/hr raise (which for many of us is about $900/year since we don't get paid in the summer/Christmas/spring break, and only get paid for face-to-face time with students). People keep saying that the union stood up for workers and defied Ford, but IMO we got played like a fiddle and the government won.

11. YOU ARE TALKING IN CIRCLES AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS OR EVEN WHO YOU ARE………………..STARBUCKS AS A CAREER CHOICE!!!! Hey I know: Go to school, get some qualifications and move up in the world. STARBUCKS IS NOT A CAREER – NOR IS PUMPING GAS. This is a hobby shop discussion not rooted in reality. Smoke another bowl!

12. Workers need to rise up-BUT, rising up under socialism is a recipe for mass slavery=ask anyone who has lived under it in the old Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietman , etc= it is BAD

13. Somewhat belatedly

14. Just LOOK how far we have fallen.

15. All Commie Teachers, should be Fired!

16. Just raise taxes quietly and give them what they want.

17. why don't we focus on Canadians already living here's rights before we give immigrants any more rights
    they already occupy more jobs than Canadians in certain industries because our gov takes our taxes to subsidize their wages so entry level jobs aren't available to Canadians, check any tim hortons and tell me that is the canadian demographic

18. Government administrators with the lowest client satisfaction ratings on record and wage growth more than double that of the private sector who paid themselves record bonuses and four pay raises while locking the economy down demanded even more money from the bled-dry taxpayers. What a triumph for "labor."

19. A union is a group of a people just like a company. Except, they don't do anything but talk instead of build the products and services. Their solutions are useless and counter productive. Instead of protests and talking, why don't you start a company and hire them and pay them as you demanded employers to do? That would increase the competition and raise wages.

20. We need a National Party to throw out the main stream parties that are puppets of the puppeteers.

21. Working people voting Conservative is as idiotic as chickens voting for the foxes. Over a 100 years of corporate brainwashing of Canada's working people in all sectors have unfortunately worked on approx 25-30 % of working people who continue to defeat themselves at elections times by voting for their abusers, harassers & tormentors in the Conservative parties…

22. I HOPE ALL YOUR PEOPLE HAVE A GENERAL STRIKE TO SHOW THE GOVERNMENT WHO HAS THE POWER ! 👍🏻😎

23. I would not trust anything founded by the Broadbent Institute as socialism including unions have long gone woke mad and abandoned the real labour issues.

24. The government should freeze these strikers bank accounts to break them!

25. Such a great, informative conversation!

26. Should collaberate with Canada's Communist party, on CPAC last mth

27. Besides the unions and the Labour movement, we must push very hard to modify the federal labour Code and all provincial labour codes which have not been upgraded since the dinausaurs were running the country.

28. Calling it out like a boss: "You defied what your leaders tried to do. Our leader did that successfully to our detriment."

    Striking and even organizing was illegal for a long time. Until workers fought to force change the laws. Don't respect laws designed to keep the bosses in power and the workers helpless. Biden screwed rail workers, yes, but that screwed ALL union and non-union workers by showing, yet again, that the United States government will stand with the bosses when push comes to shove. It doesn't matter who is in charge, Democrat or Republican, they'll claim "national security" or "the economy" or whatever else in order to keep the workers from achieving anything…because the bosses KNOW that the people in charge are capitalists just like them. We need more militancy in our labor, not less "because law and order." Law and order can suck it when they are laws that disempower the common working folk in order to maintain the order of the elite.

    Organize locally, yes, but recognize that your conditions are impacted by the conditions of unorganized workers, migrant workers, and workers around the world. You can't bury your head in the sand and ignore the fact that bosses will do anything they can to make higher profits (including for shareholders, even if it destroys the company's future), including shipping jobs to places where people are more desperate or where their costs of living are much lower (and therefore their labor less expensive). If you want to protect your future as a worker you need to stand in GLOBAL SOLIDARITY with the workers of the world. Not just your union. Not just your state. Not just your country. Workers of the world must unite in order to fight the capitalists of the world, who are already largely united in protecting their interests even as they compete with each other to become more and more dominant (capitalists want monopolies and monopsonies. Competition is less profitable than being the only option. Laws exist to decrease monopolies, but that doesn't stop them from getting creative or just buying strategic government officials. Loyalty and service are commodities in capitalism, remember, and that includes government officials).

    Don't like the immigration problem? Stand with the workers of the places they're leaving by fighting the capitalists who are profiting from the problems that cause them to leave. People don't like leaving their homes, friends and family, but they will if they have little choice. All of our ("Western" capitalist countries) couping and other efforts to destabilize regions so that privatization and the cheapening of labor/resources can take place comes at a price for someone, and the massive immigration problem is part of that price that the rest of us pay for those cheaper products and higher private profits. That is the face of capitalism that us people in wealthy countries are not shown in the news. We're told that it's due to this or that conflict, but not WHY that conflict was happening in the first place. Oh, sure, "warlord X wants control of territory Y," but no mention of how that situation developed in the first place except in "coincidental" terms. "Follow the money" is a famous and common saying, yet people explicitly avoid doing that when it comes to understanding conflicts, poverty, crime, etc.

    So stand together with the workers of the world or else expect to lose more and more ground as the Joe Bidens of the world use the law to stamp down labor while propping-themselves up as pro-labor. Like Biden. Like Trump. Like Obama. Like Bush. Like Clinton. And on and on.

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