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2026 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg.

This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines.

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Come work with us! We’re pretty awesome. www.academicwork.ca/jobs/four-4-...

A List of Labor Artists I’m not the only one making work about unions and socialism. These are some of my favorites.

Forget gift guides, why don’t we just share our favorite living, radical artists?

(quilt by Daryl Meador)

Just so you know who your allies are, the plaintiffs in this case are Tesla, Amazon, and Trader Joe's. I'm not sure any litigation could be a better metonym for the image of lawmaking as class war

David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support? With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

‘The court’s concession that the group’s members are not terrorists in the ordinary sense of the term is significant and its importance will increase: any finding that proscription is proportionate will be hard to sustain.’

David Renton on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Check out this important online and free symposium, June 27th: educatinghumanlawyers.com/about/

Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”

Meme: Drawing of a baby rabbit wearing an armoured helmet and leaf armour shawl, carrying a book under one arm, holding a spear with a teapot, hooked onto the metal spearhead that is trident shaped.

Good morning rebels...

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Feeling this bigly. From @irinaceric.bsky.social
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.

Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

the technodystopia is here

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Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy...

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As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy regulations.
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#OtD 30 Apr 1963 a boycott was launched of buses in Bristol, England, by a group of West Indian workers in protest at the bar on Black and Asian workers working on buses in the city by bosses and the union. Months later they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1026...

Well we do love to detain migrants indefinitely.

CBP detaining ppl trying to enter Canada through the Windsor Detroit crossing and transferring them to ICE.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

Sudan faces worsening humanitarian catastrophe as famine and conflict escalate: UN experts GENEVA – As the conflict in Sudan reaches the two-year mark, UN human rights experts raised alarm that widespread starvation and a distressing surge in acute malnutrition are unfolding.“Sudan is exper...

Two years into the war, civilians in Sudan continue to experience the most extreme hunger crisis globally. Both sides in the civil war are using starvation tactics.

8.6 million people internally displaced and nearly 4 million forced to flee across borders.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

if you weren't there already, this should be the loud and clear message just how dependent upon the global south's exploitation your comfort is

“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.

Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech.

inthesetimes.com/article/notr...

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

also they're now black-bagging union organizers.

It’s outrageous.

For Labor, Caution Is Fatal The riskiest course is to stay the course.

inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Important read compares @shawnfainuaw.bsky.social and @uaw.bsky.social response to tariffs with Canadian autoworkers' stance.

This is an important — if partial — victory. Tammen J allowed the abuse of process application and recognized the racism at play but refused to stay the charges against three Indigenous women arrested on #Wetsuweten territory www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Judge finds RCMP violated Charter rights of Wet’suwet’en land defenders: entering & raiding without warrants and using extreme racism against Indigenous women.

"I view the conduct as extremely serious involving racism directed towards Indigenous women"

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

TODAY!!

PASSED! A huge win from our union! York University Faculty Association General Members Meeting passes motion on #scholasticide by super majority on November 19, 2024!
@cjpme.org @jvp.bsky.social