Larry Savage

Amazon’s bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling on workers’ unionization rejected British Columbia’s Labour Relations Board has rejected a bid by Amazon to overturn an earlier decision that awarded union certification to workers in B.C.

Amazon’s bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling on workers’ unionization rejected

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Department of Labour Studies Labour Studies is a dynamic field of study distinguished by its focus on work and labour relations. Work affects everyone and everything — our work determines how we spend many of our waking hours and...

Know someone who is applying to university this year? Make sure they check out what the Department of Labour Studies at @brocku.ca has on offer.

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After unionized Canada Post workers reject ‘final offers,’ what happens next? Labour experts say another postal service strike is unlikely after unionized Canada Post workers rejected their employer’s latest round of offers in a forced vote and the parties mull their next steps...

After unionized Canada Post workers reject ‘final offers,’ what happens next?

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Canada Post workers reject latest contract offer Approximately 70 per cent voted against the offer, which the union says would erode employees’ job security and pension benefits

Yes, Canada Post's strategy backfired. But the fact that over 30% of postal workers backed the employer's "final" offer should make the union nervous. Makes for very complicated strategic choices going forward.

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As Canada Post workers reject Crown corporation’s final offer, next steps are unclear with both sides urged to return to bargaining Canada Post's offer included a 13 per cent wage hike spread over four years, as well as a $1,000 signing bonus.

The forced final offer vote turned out to be major distraction. It didn’t bring the parties any closer to concluding an agreement. And arguably, it only drew them further apart. The route to a negotiated settlement is a muddy as ever.

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Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada!

📅 Sunday August 31
⏰3 pm - 5 pm
📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton

RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

Check out LABR 3P90: Collective Bargaining, our simulation-based course open to all #BrockU students.

Migrant Workers Say Program Changes Would Hurt, Not Help | The Tyee Proposed new rules would allow employers to deduct up to 30 per cent of wages to pay for housing.

In internal documents provided to The Tyee, Employment and Social Development Canada proposed changing how migrant workers in the agriculture and fishing sectors are paid, housed and brought into the country. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

Canada Post union calls on employees to reject latest offer Canadian Union of Postal Workers says agreement would erode job security and pension benefits

#BrockU Professor of @brocklabour.bsky.social @profsavage.bsky.social spoke to The Globe and Mail about Canada Post’s most recent contract offer to its workers. #CanLab

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Registration is open for the Fall/Winter terms. Consider LABR 4P41: Labour Law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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New research finds that the Conservatives have made significant inroads among construction union members and those with college education, challenging traditional assumptions about Canadian labour politics.

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#OpenAccess from @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social -

The Labour Vote Revisited: Impacts of Union Type and Demographics on Electoral Behaviour in Canadian Federal Politics - cup.org/44CeoGl

- Daniel Westlake, @profsavage.bsky.social & Jonah Butovsky

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The 2026 CAWLS annual conference will be held June 3-5, 2026 in Winnipeg, hosted by the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba.

Details and CfP to follow.

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada

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Amazon workers win certification in Delta B.C. VANCOUVER—The B.C. Labour Relations Board (LRB) has sided with Unifor and awarded union certification to workers at the Amazon facility in Delta, B.C.“Workers at Amazon organized against very difficul...

BC labour board grants Amazon workers remedial union certification. Now the real challenge - bargaining a first contract.

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New numbers reveal 10,000-plus Ontario college layoffs, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year Post-secondary layoffs and program cuts — spread across 24 public colleges — have hit both urban and rural communities and nearly every discipline.

Remember a few months back when Doug Ford said he'd do everything in his power to protect Ontario workers?

Well here's at least 10,000 broken promises...

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Uber drivers in Victoria granted union certification | CBC News More than 500 Uber drivers in Victoria, B.C., have received union certification from the province's labour relations board.

BC Uber drivers unionize.

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Shifting Gears is now available in paperback.

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YouTube video by Broadbent Institute Neoliberalism’s Failure and What the Left Must Do

ICYMI: @graceblakeley.substack.com in conversation with @lukewsavage.bsky.social on the failures of neoliberal capitalism and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class.

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LABR 1P96: Labour Behind the Label

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No really, why are groceries so expensive now? A Q&A with an economist about skyrocketing food prices…

"Corporate profits and executive bonuses are at obscene levels," @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #canlab #inequality #cdnecon #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca
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CEO pay rose nearly 20% last year — now over $10M on average. Workers? Still fighting to afford rent and groceries.
This isn’t sustainable; it’s exploitation. www.taxfairness.ca/en
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Looking forward to teaching this course next month.

SCOOP: No NDA, no briefing Some viewed it as an “olive branch” from the Ford government — but for many, it didn’t sit right.

“Requiring a non-disclosure agreement is certainly atypical and should be viewed as an attempt to restrict open dialogue and public scrutiny of government policy,” said @profsavage.bsky.social www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-no-n... #onpoli

Registration for incoming 1st year students is now open. Check out LABR 1P94 Workplace Rights and Equity, available a both an elective and social science context credit.

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Finally picked up a copy of Fight Like Hell by @kimkelly.bsky.social. It’s at the top of my summer reading list.

Congratulations to @stephross.bsky.social and @profsavage.bsky.social!

"Shifting Gears" won the 2025 Leo Panitch Book Prize, celebrating the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. Thank you to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies for honouring this book! 🎉

Union unlikely to accept Canada Post’s proposal in forced vote, experts say Vote ordered by federal government on Crown corporation’s “final” offer likely to backfire, warn labour relations experts.

The precise timing of the vote isn’t clear, but the outcome almost certainly is, said @profsavage.bsky.social, a labour studies prof at @brocku.ca.

“The reality is that forced final offer votes rarely turn out the way employers expect them to.”

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2025/26 Fall/Winter course registration opens soon. Check out some of the most popular course options available to Brock students.

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Canada Post take note. Forced final offer votes rarely run out the way employers expect them to...

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