Links & Resources
Print Resources from the School of Labour include:
- Rights and Wrongs: Workplace Rights and Responsibilities (facilitators' manual for Employment Standards in Ontario, 1999)
- Proceedings: Prior Learning and Assessment Centres: Who Needs Them? A Symposium on Community Models for PLAR. Held at George Brown College, Toronto, April 1999
- Never Too Late: Interview Strategies for Older Workers (video, 1996)
- Getting the Credit You Deserve: Portfolio Development for ESL Speakers (facilitators' manual, 1995)
Our Favorite Links
The School of Labour’s partners and closely-linked community-based organizations
- Toronto and York Region Labour Council - Toronto’s central umbrella organization, with plenty of regularly updated info about labour issues and campaigns in the city
- Centre for the Study of Education and Work, OISE/UT - A progressive centre that researches work and working people, poverty, labour union issues and culture, and education
- Centre for Research on Work and Society, York University
- Our Times – Canada’s Independent Labour Magazine
- Times Change Employment Services for Women - An agency offering assistance to women searching for work, career direction and strategies
- Workers Action Centre - An activist organization that helps workers get their workplace rights – contact them for assistance re unpaid wages, discrimination on the job, and other violations of workplace law
National and Provincial Federations of Labour
- Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Canada’s national labour central, with current articles and loads of useful info about campaigns and labour statistics
- Canadian Labour Congress “Equality Once and For All” The CLC’s year-long campaign for women’s equality in pay, working conditions and living standards – many excellent fact sheets
- Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL)
- British Columbia Federation of Labour
- Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
- Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
- Ontario Workers' Health and Safety Centre
- Quebec Federation of Labour
- Yukon Federation of Labour
Unions in Canada
- Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM)
- Canadian Auto Workers (CAW)
- Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) GBC students, this is your union!
- Canadian Office and Professional Workers (COPE)
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Canada – the Wobblies!
- National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)
- Ontario Elementary Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA)
- Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF)
- Ontario Teachers' Federation (OTF)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
- UNITE HERE
Labour Studies / Labour History Journals
(and magazines that sometimes carry Labour Studies content)
- Canada’s History
- Briarpatch: Since 1973, the magazine “still challenging the corporate agenda and presenting workable alternatives”
- Canadian Committee on Labour History
- Canadian Dimension: an independent magazine published 6 x year as well as a forum for left thinking with weekly and daily updates on “The Best of the Web”
- Canadian Ethnic Studies: A journal on ethnicity, immigration, inter-group relations in Canada
- Harvard Labour and Worklife Program
- Journal of Canadian Studies
- Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
- Our Times: Canada’s independent labour magazine, featuring current stories about working people, union issues and debates
- This Magazine
- United Association for labour History Journal (U.S.)
Labour Studies / Labour History Sites
- Canadian History Online Exhibits
- CAW Local 200 (Windsor) ‘s Labour History page and check out the “Activist Jukebox”!
- Canadian Steel: Chinese Grit Project
- Czarnecki's labour Education Newsletter & UALE Info - Extensive links to US-based labour resources
- Graphics Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Unions
- Labour Start - an international compilation of labour news, updated daily
- Library and Archives Canada
- The Missing Plaque Project: Changing the Way We Think About Toronto History http://missingplaque.tao.ca/
- Ontario Workers' Arts & Heritage Centre
- Pacific Northwest Labour History Association
- Parks Canada “This Week in History” site - lots of interesting historical events and persons, including labour-related events
- Timeline of labour history events in the US
- United Association for Labour Education - a U.S. site
- Organized Labour Portal - A mostly US-based Wikipedia source for labour history; a daily “Labour History article of the day,” often profiling an interesting activist
- Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ont
Up-to-the-minute labour news
- LabourStart - “Where unionists start their day on the web” – campaigns and information from Canada and across the globe
- Canadian Association of Labour Media – lots of great info, CARTOONS! and links
- LabourNet - San Francisco-based institute for global communication
- Working TV - A labour TV program broadcast weekly in British Columbia – “from the point of view of those of us who do the work”!
International labour sites
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- American Federation of labour - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- Trades Union Congress (Britain) - like our Canadian Labour Congress - www.tuc.org.uk
- UNISON The Public Service Union (Britain) Britain's largest union
- LabourNet UK -- using the internet for the benefit of trade union members
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) -- the Wobblies
Labour Studies Programs
- Athabasca University, Alberta
- Brock University Brock University Labour Studies Program
- Capilano College
- McMaster University Labour Studies Programme at McMaster
- Mohawk College
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Manitoba Labour and Workplace Studies program
- University of Windsor
- University of Saskatchewan
Progressive Media, E-zines and journals
- Dissent magazine
- labour Notes US organization working on restoring democracy to unions since 1979, connected to labour News Wire, which is updated every 15 minutes
- Mojo Wire, Mother Jones, US investigative magazine since 1976, named after the feisty pioneer labour organizer
- New Internationalist http://www.newint.org/ -- a gorgeous site from the magazine, packed with global info and links to action sites for teachers, students and the community
- Our Times http://www.ourtimes.ca/ – Canada’s Independent Labour Magazine
- Rabble.ca rabble.ca/ A huge Canadian site with articles, columns, podcasts and even an etiquette column!
- Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/ – a very cool and smart British based e-journal “spicing up politics”
- Seven Oaks http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/ A Vancouver magazine of “politics, culture and resistance”(takes its name from the Manitoba battle of Seven Oaks in 1816 between the Metis and the British colonialists)
- Spacing -- http://www.spacing.ca/ A wise and thoughtful Toronto site devoted to improving public spaces – in the political, social and cultural environment
- The Straight Goods - Canadians informing Canadians - http://www.straightgoods.com
Globalization
Corporate monitoring:
- McSpotlight: critical of McDonalds and its clones http://www.mcspotlight.org/
Philosophy behind Corporate Globalization:
- Neoliberalism: very detailed, interesting take on what neoliberalism is http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Neoliberalism.asp
Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s)
- Council of Canadians: non-governmental trade watchdog http://www.canadians.org
- Maquila Solidarity Network: works to improve conditions for workers in maquiladoras (free trade processing zones) http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
- Kairos: Ecumenical social justice organization http://www.kairoscanada.org/e/economic/index.asp
- Inter Pares: Canadian social justice/development organization http://www.interpares.ca/en/what/democratic.php
Global Financial Institutions and Agreements pushing neoliberalism:
- The Bretton Woods Project: critical of World Bank http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/index.shtml
Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:
- Alliance for Responsible Trade: information on A People’s Trade Agreement http://www.art-us.org/Peoples_Trade
- Common Frontiers: A Canadian organization that brings together people from many sectors to fight against globalization and deep economic integration in the Americas; lots of valuable info http://www.commonfrontiers.ca/
LGBTQQ and Positive Space sites
- George Brown College’s Positive Space site – lots of info and links!
- Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE)
- Gay Rights Watch http://blog.gayrightswatch.com/ Updated news re lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/
- Stonewall http://www.stonewall.org.uk A British advocacy and lobbying organization
Activism! Community and Social Justice Organizations
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives http://www.policyalternatives.ca/ An independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice
- No One is Illegal – works against immigration policies that restrict access to services and citizenship and that increase poverty globally and locally http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/
- Centre for Social Justice A progressive think tank that aims to narrow the gap between rich and poor, and to reduce corporate domination.
- The Council of Canadians - http://www.apc.org/ Canada’s largest citizens’ organization; valuable info re anti-globalization campaigns and issues
- Institute for Work and Health
- Justice for Migrant Workers www.justicia4migrantworkers.com
- The Polaris Institute http://www.polarisinstitute.org/ A Canadian think tank founded in 1996 to give community groups and individuals the tools to re-skill themselves in the fight for social justice
- Web Networks Community 3500+ Canadian activists, artists and non-profit organizations, and non-profit internet provider http://community.web.net/