McMaster's School of Labour Studies is home to Canada's leading undergraduate & graduate programs studying & researching work, labour and social justice issues
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
25 Nov 2025
📢Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies annual conference call for papers ⬇️
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
29 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025
Join @ToWorkers and @MayworksToronto for the Toronto launch of the Art of Solidarity next Wednesday, Oct 29! 7 pm at @WorkersAC.
Featuring Rob Kristofferson, @stephross_mac and Toronto-based contributors to the book.
More details here: btlbooks.com/events/view/art…
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1 Oct 2025
We are thrilled to be co-sponsoring @Prof_deLeon's visit and talk about his new book Freedom Train about the centrality of multiracial solidarity to labour movements.
Join us next week @McMasterU #canlab #hamont #labourmovement #labormovement #racialjustice #socialjustice
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
23 Sep 2025
Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Labour Studies Program, University of Manitoba. June 3-5, 2026. Panel, roundtable and workshop proposals due Dec 15. Individual paper submissions due Jan 15. Read at cawls.ca/en/2026-annual-conf…
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
20 Aug 2025
Flight attendants are "largely women that were willing to take the biggest risk — of fines, jail time and perhaps losing their jobs — to fight for dignity at work, and we owe them a debt.”
More analysis of #AirCanadaStrike #UnpaidWorkWontFly #canlab
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
18 Aug 2025
Back-to-work orders erode trust. When gov’t intervenes for employers, unions see rules as stacked & militancy grows—expect more actions outside legal limits as faith in the system fades
See my comments on #AirCanadaStrike @cupenat in @TorontoStar #canlab
thestar.com/business/air-can…
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
15 Jul 2025
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.
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
31 May 2025
It's an incredible honour for @Prof_Savage and me to receive @CAWLS_ACETS' Leo Panitch Book Prize for the best book in Canadian #LabourStudies in 2025, especially because Leo was our mentor. So grateful to our peers for this recognition #canlab #cdnpoli
ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
15 Apr 2025
Register soon for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies being held at @maclabour at McMaster University May 28-30, 2025.
@CAWLS_ACETS members get discounted rates!
cawls.ca/en/2025-annual-conf…
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
25 Mar 2025
Join @maclabour and @WAHC April 7 for Off The Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton. Untold stories of #hamont revealed by our students
#canlab #labourstudies #CommunityEngagement
Register here, as space is limited
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Join us TODAY March 19 at 1pm ET for the our 2024-25 webinar series w/
@FauvelMylene
on union-community coalition-building and lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement. Register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
11 Mar 2025
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, I share some thoughts here about its immense impact on workers, the labour movement, and the future of worker organizing
#canlab #cdnpoli #strikes #labourmovement #labourstudies #organizing
brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/ar…
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
7 Mar 2025
Some analysis on the #UAW's decision to back Trump's #tariffs and its implications for cross-border union solidarity
#canlab #cdnpoli #labourmovement #labormovement
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6 Mar 2025
Join us March 19 for the last instalment in our 2024-25 webinar series w/ @FauvelMylene on union-community coalition-building and lessons from #Quebec's minimum wage movement
Scan the QR code or register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#canlab #unions #coalitions #organizing
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12 Feb 2025
Join us March 19 at 1pm ET for the last session in our 2024-25 speaker series feat. @FauvelMylene on Coalition-Building: Rethinking Alliances between Community-based Organizations and Unions
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#canlab #cdnpoli #coalitions #unions #community
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
6 Feb 2025
It was a pleasure & a privilege to speak on dynamics in contemporary unionism at @MacLabour webinar series yesterday
Thanks to @stephross_mac, who’s developing the next generation of researchers playing leading roles in organizations representing working people
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Mac Labour Studies retweeted
4 Feb 2025
Coming up tomorrow -- @maxbaru on independent union organizing. Join 2:30pm ET on Zoom, register below.
#canlab #unionorganizing #organizing #labourmovement #labormovement
29 Jan 2025
Join us Feb. 5 @ 2:30pm ET for the latest in our webinar series feat. @maxbaru What independent union movements tell us about today's marketplace of trade union organization
To register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#canlab #unionorganizing #labourstudies
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