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Fighting and Firings

In this post, Phinneas Gage tells a story about action on the job, management retaliation, and workers’ responses. Fighting and Firings Harjit stood outside the depot in the cold for 15 minutes before...

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Interviews with organizers: Canada’s postal struggles & the New School...

Beginning with the crisis of 2008, a series of community, labor, and education struggles have unfolded across the world, in the US, and Canada. As experienced organizers face new challenges, and new...

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Let me sleep on it

Our series on work, sleep and dreams continues with a story about a sleepwalking postal worker. Let me sleep on it By Phinneas Gage I woke up and rubbed my eyes, Saturday was a long time coming this...

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What Happened in Edmonton this Week

What Happened in Edmonton this Week An Appeal for Solidarity from a Letter Carrier in Edmonton   This week we have seen hundreds of letter carriers in Edmonton take a stand. They took a stand for...

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Scabs: part I

This entry is a two-part story from contributor Phinneas Gage about a wildcat strike by contractors at the Canadian postal service, and continues our coverage of struggles within Canada Post. In the...

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Scabs! Part II: The St. Albert Wildcat

This entry is the second part in a two-part story from contributor Phinneas Gage about a wildcat strike by contractors at the Canadian postal service, and continues our coverage of struggles within...

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On Bluffing

Rage – contribution by M. Kostas   This week’s piece comes to us by fellow editor at Recomposition, Phineas Gage. In it, he analyzes three instances in different organizing scenarios where bluffing,...

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Turning up the Heat

Postal Workers rally around the plant after being locked out. This week we proudly present you the first of a three part series that detail a set of organizing actions by postal workers in Canada...

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Buffalo Jump

  Last week we brought you the first in a series of articles by Phineas Gage about a strike at Canada Post. This week as the strike rolled on the workers faced a common challenge of workplace battles....

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Snake March

Workers gather over one thousand strong to protest back to work legislation.   Concluding Phineas Gage’s three-part series on struggles at the Canada Post during 2011, we present ‘Snake march’. In this...

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Concrete Examples of Non Labour Relations Board Unions – Part I

Port of Metro Vancouver Workers Protest This is the first part of a series of concrete examples and very brief summaries of organizations that have some component of direct action and a form of...

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Free Parking

In this piece Phineas Gage recalls the challenges of organizing under punitive back to work legislation and the effect it had on shop floor organising. As tensions grow over a dispute about the safety...

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