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:: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 ::
Canadian Labor Today: Partial Successes, Real Challenges - by Barry Brennan, Monthly Review
Traditions of union militancy in Canada are far from dead. Large numbers of workers have recent experiences with strikes, direct actions in the workplace, political campaigns, and the mass demonstrations of the past few decades. In particular, unions with richer traditions of struggle include pockets of activists who are looking for projects that promise a way out of the defensiveness and resignation of the current period. General attitudes are less hostile to unionism in this country than in the United States, and this, too, creates space.------------------------------------------- posted 9:58 AM :: reference link ::
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