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...
View ArticleInterviews 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...
View ArticleLet 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleScabs: 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...
View ArticleScabs! 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...
View ArticleOn 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,...
View ArticleTurning 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...
View ArticleBuffalo 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....
View ArticleSnake 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...
View ArticleConcrete 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...
View ArticleFree 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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