• The Canada Recovery Benefit is set to expire tomorrow, October 23, leaving 880,000 workers without income support. Justice for Workers is holding an emergency email and phone zap campaign to demand the federal government extend the CRB and fix Employment Insurance. Get some fast facts here.

• The Decent Work and Health Network is asking Justin Trudeau to not wait 100 days before implementing paid sick days. In BC, 84 doctors, health experts and economists are also calling for the province to implement 10 paid sick days.

• The IATSE film worker strike that could see 60,000 U.S. workers walk off the job has been called off...for now. IATSE attained a last minute tentative agreement that has yet to be ratified by members. Unsafe film working conditions have been further amplified by the tragic news that Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

• Ontario's new "protections" for temp workers do nothing to reverse the damage of 2018's "Open for Business Act," which the Toronto Star calls the "Stomping on Ontario's Most Vulnerable Workers Act." Days earlier, Premier Ford accused immigrants of coming to Ontario to "collect the dole and sit around."

• The Teamsters' first union application to represent an Amazon warehouse in Nisku, Alberta has stalled, not attaining the 40% union card threshold. The Teamsters filed to represent workers at a second warehouse just outside Calgary, vote TBA.

• CBC's The Fifth Estate produced an episode examining working conditions in Amazon's Canadian warehouses and the company's union busting tactics.

• Rising temperatures impact people's mental health and their ability to work, according to a new Lancet report on climate change.

• Employment has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest Labour Force Survey - but will workers be better off?

• 90,000 Ontario migrant agricultural workers will gain access to permanent residency, but many refugee and undocumented health care workers still lack status.

• Two ER physicians highlight the negative health impacts the gig economy has on workers and what they would like to see in Ontario's Changing Workplaces Review recommendations next month.

• UFCW weighs whether Alberta Superstore workers should "strike or settle."

• New Brunswick public sector workers and CUPE members held strike preparation meetings.

• Calgary Stampede set up and tear down workers unionized with IATSE 212.

• Food processing workers at Maple Leaf Foods join UFCW 832.

• Thinking of organizing your workplace? Here's what you need to know!

• BC hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 40, marked 6 months of being locked out by Hilton Metrotown and Pacific Gateway hotel chains with a rally. Workers will also participate in a 'Striketober' day of action on Thursday, October 28.

• Ontario's Shorelines Casino Belleville workers, members of Unifor 1090, are on strike for fair wages.

• Quebec has offered a second pay increase to daycare workers after the union began rotating strikes.

• Grand Falls, Newfoundland municipal workers and CUPE members now have a tentative agreement, ending a 14 week lockout.

• Meet Ontario's 700 De Havilland aerospace workers and Unifor members who have been on strike since August 1.

• Meet the Alberta CESSCO workers, members of Boilermakers Local 146, who have been locked out for over a year.

• BC construction workers with IBEW 213 have been on strike for two years fighting union-buster Ledcor.

• October 25: The BC Federation of Labour will host a Day of Action for paid sick days on Monday in Victoria, Burnaby and Surrey.
  

• October 31: Application deadline for the Labour College of Canada

• November 7: Manitoba CCPA's Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraiser Brunch

• November 16: Justice for Workers organizing meeting

Matatag: Filipina Care Workers During COVID-19, a photo exhibit by workers on the frontlines of the pandemic launched October 20 at A Space Gallery and runs until January 2022.

Check out the Canadian Labour International Film Festival virtual events and lineup here.