Management Rights and the Lack of Criticism of Such Rights Among the Social Democratic Left, Part Seven: Imperial Oil Stratchona Refinery and Unifor Local 21-A

Introduction At the beginning of writing this blog, I wrote up some posts that focused on the management-rights clause of collective agreements between a union and an employer in order to demonstrate the limitations of collective bargaining and collective agreements. I then integrated the issue of management rights into an anlaysis of the rate of … Continue reading Management Rights and the Lack of Criticism of Such Rights Among the Social Democratic Left, Part Seven: Imperial Oil Stratchona Refinery and Unifor Local 21-A →

La Tasa de Explotación de los Trabajadores de Tencent (China)

Read this post in English Introducción [Utilicé ChatGPT (Inteligencia Artificial) para traducir la versión en inglés al español. Hice algunas correcciones para que las letras que representan cantidades sean coherentes con la terminología en español.] He intentado calcular la tasa de explotación de los trabajadores en varias empresas capitalistas canadienses (véase, por ejemplo, The Rate … Continue reading La Tasa de Explotación de los Trabajadores de Tencent (China) →

Attributing All Weather Extremes to Human Climate Change is Irresponsible, and Socialists Need to Challenge Such Irresponsibility, Part Two

John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), recently posted the following on his Facebook page (July 17, 2024): The flooding that hit Toronto yesterday is an indication of the extreme weather that is intensifying under the impact of climate change. Seeing this, it is easy to understand that such developments … Continue reading Attributing All Weather Extremes to Human Climate Change is Irresponsible, and Socialists Need to Challenge Such Irresponsibility, Part Two →

The Rhetoric of Union Reps: The So-called Good Job and Fair Wages of Liquor Store Workers

Introduction Workers working for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) are now on strike. There seem to be three issues from the point of view of the union (Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local (OPSEU): job security (since Conserative Premier Doug Ford plans to privatize liquor sales by permitting such sales in local grocery … Continue reading The Rhetoric of Union Reps: The So-called Good Job and Fair Wages of Liquor Store Workers →

The Rate of Exploitation of Tencent (China) Workers

Introduction I have tried to calculate the rate of exploitation of workers in various Canadian capitalist companies (see for example The Rate of Exploitation of the Workers of Rogers Communications Inc., One of the Largest Private Employers in Toronto or The Rate of Exploitation of the Workers of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), One of … Continue reading The Rate of Exploitation of Tencent (China) Workers →

The Real World of Law and Union Rhetoric: The Case of the Court Order for the People’s Circle to Abandon its Encampment at the University of Toronto

Introduction Below is an article written by Harry Glasbeek (a former Marxist law professor at Osgood Law School of York University in Toronto) on the court order imposed by ; it is posted on the Socialist Project website (https://socialistproject.ca/2024/07/whose-side-is-law-always-on/). Before providing a copy of the article, I will make a couple of comments about union … Continue reading The Real World of Law and Union Rhetoric: The Case of the Court Order for the People’s Circle to Abandon its Encampment at the University of Toronto →