Enda Brophy

Inside the Labour Struggle at Massy Books | The Tyee Nearly a year after unionizing, the beloved bookstore has few staff and no contract.

Inside the Labour Struggle at Massy Books via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Opinion: The slow unravelling of higher education in B.C. has begun The federal cap on international students triggered the crisis. Decades of provincial underfunding made it inevitable.

#AcademicSky
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If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.

Graphic celebrating our strike ending. It reads: November 12, 2025 The Strike is Over! with a raised fist and the Kickstarter United logo in each corner

After 7 months of bargaining, and 42 days of striking Kickstarter United has voted to end the strike

Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social

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Worker Led Movements Against AI: A Discussion with Tamara Kneese Mon, Nov. 17, 2025

I’ll be in conversation with Sana Ahmad next Monday, November 17 at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social about our new @commonnotions.bsky.social book on digital workers’ inquiry and my forthcoming @datasociety.bsky.social report on climate action in and against the tech industry

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb

I guess I got early access by preordering and now having read my copy, I can attest that this is good! Check it out!

🚨 Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry is out! We’ve collected stories, struggles, and strategies from the tech sector’s labour movement—even as digital platforms reshape work and tech billionaires side w Trump.

Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)

Death of SFU janitor amplifies calls for better working conditions In the chemistry wing of SFU's science centre lay flowers and a photo of Kulbir Kaila. This is where the 61-year-old, who had been working as a janitor at the university for 20 years, took her final b...

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NDP MP calls for probe into statement banning Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap The NDP wants to probe what led a parliamentary secretary to announce that an Irish hip-hop group had been banned from entering Canada.

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Calls for improved working conditions for janitorial staff at SFU, Burnaby At Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus, colleagues and friends of a custodian who died while at work are calling on the university to improve working conditions for janitorial staff. As Michelle ...

CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family.

Please take a few minutes to watch and share.

Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW.

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Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...

What policy looks like in a country that cares about cultural work: www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Death of longtime cleaner at SFU sparks calls to improve working conditions for janitorial staff | CBC News Dozens gathered at the Simon Fraser University (SFU) campus in Burnaby, B.C., Thursday to remember a 61-year-old custodian who died on shift, and to demand better working conditions for other contract...

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Join Contract Worker Justice next week to honour Kulbir Kaila, a beloved CUPE 3338 cleaner who passed away on the job.

Speakers include her family, CUPE 3338 reps, & MLA Rohini Arora.

Dignity, safety & direct employment for ALL SFU
workers! ✊🏽

👉 RSVP: t.co/m4Dt3snC5h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mass Organizing Call for Avi Lewis - with Naomi Klein, Anjali Appadurai, Adel Iskandar, and Nas Yadollahi. October 14th: 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET, 9pm AT, 9:30pm NT. Learn more at lewisforleader.ca/organizercall.

On Oct 14th (tomorrow!), the Lewis for Leader Campaign is hosting our first National Mass Organizing call—and you’re invited!

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social, Adel Iskandar, Nastaran Yadollahi & others to hear how you can get involved.

lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

For SFU people, on the hill this Thursday.

Tickets for US World Cup in 1994

Cheapest: $25
Most expensive: $475

Tickets for US World Cup in 2026

Cheapest: $1,815
Most expensive: $48,000

Gotta hate dynamic pricing

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Join Contract Worker Justice next week to honour Kulbir Kaila, a beloved CUPE 3338 cleaner who passed away on the job.

Speakers include her family, CUPE 3338 reps, & MLA Rohini Arora.

Dignity, safety & direct employment for ALL SFU
workers! ✊🏽

👉 RSVP: t.co/m4Dt3snC5h

YouTube video by The Breach Why Canada needs public grocery stores

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores.

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs.

youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo

Our book is out next month! In a long essay on digital worker inquiry and 11 interviews w/ organizers all along the digital value chain, we consider the relationship between research and organizing within and against digital capitalism.

Uber Buys Data Labeling Startup in Push to Sell AI Services Uber Technologies Inc. has bought Belgian startup Segments.ai as the ride-hailing company seeks to expand its nascent data-labeling business.

In case you forgot, Uber has a data labeling business in which it provides a platform to other businesses to outsource annotation, translation and editing tasks to independent contractors.

It just bought another data labeling startup.
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The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here

Is Kneecap banned from Canada or not? NDP urges answer in high-profile case
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SFU cleaning worker dies during shift, amplifying long-standing calls to improve working conditions By: Hannah Fraser, News Editor (writer and interviewer), and Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer (interviewer and translator) Since 2020, Contract Worker Justice (CWJ) @SFU has been leading the push for be…

Another piece on the death of Kulbir Kaila while working for cleaning service contractor Best at SFU. Please circulate. We need this contractor off of our campuses NOW
the-peak.ca/2025/09/sfu-...

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation

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