• Raising the minimum wage is now a Nobel Prize winning idea! Canadian born economist David Card was recognized for his studies that show raising the minimum wage does not negatively impact jobs. The Globe & Mail criticizes Doug Ford's measly 10 cent minimum wage increase in light of the award.

• The Canadian Labour Congress is calling for the Trudeau government to extend the Canada Recovery Benefit for workers - which is set to expire this week. Meanwhile, the business lobby is asking the feds to change the CRB to "ensure it does not incentivize workers to stay at home rather than returning to the labour force."

• In a blow to Manitoba's labour movement, the PC government's wage freeze legislation for 100,000 public sector workers was ruled constitutional upon appeal - a reversal of last year's decision. The MFL says it will consider an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

• However, the Manitoba Court of Appeal also ruled the PC government "substantially interfered" with faculty bargaining at the U of M in 2016 when it gave administration a secret wage freeze mandate. The Faculty Association has been fighting the wage freeze ever since, and has a strike vote set for this weekend.

• After a worker-led campaign, the Alberta UCP government has backed away from privatizing the Land Titles, Personal and Corporate Registeries.

• The pandemic has sent public transit ridership into a death spiral. The Amalgamated Transit Union Canada hosted a townhall this week with activists across the country calling for Trudeau to invest in public transit operating funding as part of a just recovery and Green New Deal.

• COVID prompts streak of union activity across Calgary homeless shelters, non-profits.

• After thousands of public sector CUPE workers attained a strike mandate for higher wages in New Brunswick, the PC government transferred 1,900 Licensed Practical Nurses to a different union - a move CUPE called "union busting at its worst."

• More than 180,000 workers have left the restaurant sector. Most became white collar workers - and they're not coming back, a new CCPA study finds.

• Nurses unions' praise emergency health summit and call for urgent reprieve.

• After months of intense negotiations and mediation, AUPE and the Alberta UCP government have reached a tentative deal. AUPE says all concessions are off the table.

• Milton Transit drivers vote to unionize with ATU Local 1572.

• Meat processing workers with TruHarvest join UFCW 1006A.

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

• Gig Workers Collective says it expects 70% of Instacart workers - in the U.S. and Canada - to walk off the job tomorrow in a bid for better working conditions.

• Quebec offers daycare workers immediate pay hike after union begins rotating strikes.

• 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.

• Tonight & Tomorrow: OFL's Labour Confronts the Climate Crisis online conference featuring guest speakers Noam Chomsky, Seth Klein and Jim Stanford

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

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

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

On the inaugural episode of the Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club, Paniz and Tamsyn are joined by Rinaldo Walcott, a professor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at University of Toronto. They talk about the university as a site of struggle, the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) industry, private property, and the connections between the three.