• CBC’s The Current hosted a heart-wrenching town hall in Nova Scotia about the state of Canadian healthcare in rural areas. "This is our state of emergency right now," one nurse said. "It’s not the pandemic anymore, it's our healthcare."

• The townhall is timely considering newly elected PC Premier Tim Houston recently fired the board and CEO of the Nova Scotia Health Authority, intending to overhaul the system.

• 22,000 New Brunswick public sector workers and CUPE members could strike by the end of the month if PC Premier Blaine Higgs does not increase wages.

• Jason Kenney's UCP government has withdrawn its wage cut demands for Alberta nurses, as requested by a mediator, but other cuts remain on the table.

• Alberta labour leaders have expressed intention to defy Kenney's restrictive new labour legislation in courtrooms and on the streets.

• Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe used emergency powers to reallocate health care workers to respond to skyrocketing COVID cases. Unions denounced Moe's "heavy hand" for disrupting health care bargaining.

• 250 Globe and Mail workers and Unifor members narrowly avoided a strike on Wednesday, obtaining a tentative agreement hours before the midnight deadline.

• The federal government must close the loophole that allowed Laurentian University to use private-sector restructuring laws to eliminate 60 programs and 100 jobs, argues Trent University proffesroe Sue Wurtele.
  
  
• After 18 months of protest, BC hospitality workers with Unite Here Local 40 have secured a new contract with Hospitality Industrial Relations extending recall rights. However, Hilton Metrotown and Pacific Gateway hotels have not budged and their workers remain locked out.

• 11,000 Quebec child care workers announced they will strike September 24, seeking wage increases and resources for children with special needs.

• Ontario's Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library workers unionized with CUPE.
  

• Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project unionized with CUPE last week. The workers spoke to NowToronto about the importance of including sex workers in the labour movement.

• 2,000 CSN-affiliated hotel workers from a dozen hotels across Quebec have coordinated a strike for wage increases.

• 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.

• Municipal workers in Grand Falls, Newfoundland have been locked out since July 15.

• 700 De Havilland aerospace workers and Unifor members have been on strike since August 1. The dispute has been prolonged by an injunction which limits Unifor's right to picket.
  

• 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.

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

• New York app-based delivery workers fight their "phantom boss," deter bike thieves and form support networks in this gripping feature by Josh Dzieza for The Verge.
  

• September 18, 4:30 PM ET: Canada Goose workers will protest their employer's union busting at the Toronto International Film Festival. Sign up to support here.

• September 21, 12 AM- 12 PM: Harbinger Media Network's Twitch telethon fundraiser will showcase progressive Canadian podcasts and journalism. Stephen and I will represent PressProgress at 4 PM CT - join us!

• September 21, 7 PM ET: Justice for Workers Decent Work organizing meeting.

• September 22, 10 AM MT: Public Interest Alberta AGM &  Keynote with Yanis Varoufakis. AGM begins at 1 PM MT.

• September 22, 12 PM PT: Beyond the Pandemic: Paid Sick Leave for BC Workers webinar.

• October 8, 2021: Registration deadline for the CUPE National Convention in Vancouver, BC, November 22 - 26.

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