• Teachers, parents, community members, and pretty much everyone in Manitoba are celebrating the demise of Bill 64, which would have eliminated school boards, had there not been massive urban and rural community mobilization against it. There was even a marching band!
  
  
• Four more unpopular Manitoba PC bills will be withdrawn thanks to community pressure, following Premier Pallister's resignation. These bills would have changed labour law to lengthen strikes, increased Hydro rates, banned protest on 'critical infrastructure,' and increased liquor privatization.
  
  
• B.C. hospital cleaning and dietary workers are also celebrating the NDP government's reverse-privatization of 4,000 positions after 20 years of organizing.
  
  
• B.C. labour leaders are calling for a dedicated prosecutor to address workplace deaths after a high-profile case collapsed, letting an employer with a "reckless disregard" for safety off the hook for the death of a 24 year old construction worker.
  
  
• B.C. bumps "Dickensian" child working age from 12 to 16.
  
  
• Migrant workers denounce Conservatives' 'Trump style immigration' platform.
  
  
• Saskatchewan will conduct the first review of its Occupational Health and Safety policies in 15 years.

• Workers at two more Indigo stores have unionized with UFCW, bringing the total to six stores throughout the last year. Check out Passage's review of the Indigo union drive in their labour newsletter Class Struggle.
  
  
• Summer law students at Cavalluzzo LLP have unionized with CUPE 1281, receiving voluntary recognition by the employer.
  
  
• Interested in unionizing? Our PressProgress labour columnists explain what you should know.

• School support staff in Thompson, Manitoba went on strike for four days last week after four years without a contract. The workers, who are members of USW Local 8223, will vote Tuesday on a contract which includes wage increases.
  

• 700 De Havilland aerospace workers and Unifor members have been on strike since August 1 after Longview Aviation announced Dash 8 aircraft production would be transferred to another plant. Ontario's Superior Court granted the employer an injunction which severely limits Unifor's right to picket.
  
  
• Unifor and Rio Tinto are headed back to the bargaining table, aiming to end a four month strike by 900 aluminum smelter workers in B.C. fighting to preserve their pensions.
  
  
• Over a thousand workers at Quebec's Olymel pork processing plant ended a four month strike, accepting a six year deal with a 24.6% wage increase over the span of the contract.
  
  
• Alberta CESSCO Fabrication and Engineering workers have been locked out for over a year fighting employer demands to gut wages and pensions.
  
  
• Municipal workers in Grand-Falls, Newfoundland have been locked out for months after the employer demanded more power over job classifications and asked employees to pay for future health insurance increases.
  
  
• B.C. hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 40, remain locked out of Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotel chains. Workers are fighting for their employers to extend recall rights after laying off workers during the pandemic.
  
  
• B.C. construction workers with IBEW 213 have been on strike for two years fighting union-buster Ledco.
  
  
• Check out the Alberta Advantage's podcast episode In Case of Strike for an explainer on why strikes matter.

• Nurses and health care workers across the country are burned out, fed up, picketing, resigning, or getting ready to strike following brutal working conditions throughout the pandemic.
  
  
• Employer and government driven vaccine mandates set controversial legal precedents for unions and workers and have caused division within the labour movement.
  
  
• Meanwhile, teachers across Canada experience anxiety about varying back-to-school plans and the Delta-driven 4th wave.

• September 14, 7 PM ET: PSAC webinar will explore federal election issues that matter to workers: medicare, pharmacare, good jobs and a just recovery.

The latest in Amazon propaganda? Emily Blunt will star as the first female detective at the union-busting Pinkerton agency - which Amazon recently hired to spy on its workers. Read more about the notorious Pinkertons here.