• 200 young Panjabi workers organized with the Naujawan Support Network and protested four employers' homes in Brampton, demanding thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.
  


• IATSE film workers in the U.S. have a 98% strike mandate calling for an end to long hours and poor working conditions. A potential strike could impact productions in Canada.

• PressProgress staff writer Mitchell Thompson spoke to Teamster's union organizers about Amazon working conditions and the Canadian union drive for Jacobin.

• Our Times magazine interviews Andrea Babbington, the first Black woman president of the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, about her vision for Canada's largest labour council.

• Ontario will see a provincial election in 2022. Aminah Sheikh discusses how the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario is organizing to make Doug Ford a one-term premier.

• All New Brunswick public sector CUPE locals have attained strike mandates for higher wages. All locals could strike next week.

• Workers' rights advocates blast Ontario WSIB's move to return up to $3 billion in excess funds to employers.

• Nunavut Employees Union president wants workers' expired collective agreement to be a key issue in upcoming territorial election.

• Over 30 groups representing Canadian health care workers held a summit on Tuesday calling for governments across Canada to create long term strategies to improve front-line health care worker retention and recruitment.

• Ontario announces funding to hire additional 4,000 staff in long term care facilities.

• Saskatchewan's Workers Compensation Act Review Committee will host public consultations and request recommendations from workers in November.

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

• 900 BC Rio Tinto aluminum smelt workers and Unifor members ratified a collective agreement after a month back at bargaining following a two month long strike.

• The mayor of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, who is up for re-election, launched a series of radio attack ads against CUPE city workers who have been locked out since July 15.

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

• BC hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 40, remain locked out of Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotel chains, fighting for extended recall rights.

• Meet the Alberta CESSCO workers, members of Boilermakers Local 146, who have been locked out for over a year fighting a 10% wage rollback. Check out their action toolkit here.

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

• University of Manitoba's Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is launching a podcast on October 12 called Through My Eyes: Nursing Perspectives to elevate the voices of Manitoba nurses.

• How labour can win at the bargaining table by Sam Gindin.

• October 15-16: OFL's Labour Confronts the Climate Crisis online conference featuring guest speakers Noam Chomsky and Seth Klein.

• October 19, 7-9 PM: Justice for Workers organizing meeting

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

How can we rebuild community in an age of individualism? Jessica McCormack, from St. John's Newfoundland, believes unions are essential to restoring ideas of collectivity and solidarity -- especially among young workers who experience alienation through precarious gig work. Watch Jessica's Ted Talk here.