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The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
| by Herman Rosenfeld | Summer 2011 |
It is a sad irony, that in the midst of the deepest economic slump since the Depression, it is working class and socialist political institutions that have been in crisis. Even with the inspiring new movements in a number of U.S. states, the Mideast and some European countries coming up on the political horizon, the larger union movement here has remained mired in a sluggish defensiveness.
Metal Workers & Miners Unions Consider Merger
| Dan La Botz | June 28, 2010 |
Unions Representing Workers in Canada, Mexico qnd U.S. Explore Merger:
Would Create International Union of One Million Metal Workers and Miners
The United Steelworkers (USW), which represents 850,000 workers in Canada, the Caribbean and the United States, and the National Union of Miners and Metal Workers (SNTMMRM), known as the Mineros, which represents 180,000 workers in Mexico, have announced plans to explore uniting into one international union. The agreement to begin exploration of a merger was signed on June 21.
Obama's Foreign Policy: The View from Canada
| by Derrick O'Keefe | Summer 2010 |
Canadian author Margaret Atwood famously described the border between our country and the United States as the world’s longest “one-way mirror.”