THERE'S NO VACCINE FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. It’s a cruel reality that prompted the creation of the Occupational Disease Reform Alliance (ODRA). The alliance is the latest concentrated push by Ontario workers to get fair treatment from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) system.

THE WORKERS WON WITH CLASS ACTION. Not exactly the kind Karl Marx had in mind. But a big win none the less.

ALINA TURNER IS NOT JUST A COMPUTER NERD. She’s a computer nerd who cares about people every bit as much as she cares about the power of algorithms. It’s a combination that lead her to create HelpSeeker, an app to help Canadians succeed in their search for the help they need.

TRUCKERS IN BRAMPTON WANT WHAT’S THEIRS. What they’re doing to get it is exceptional, brave and has been more than worth it, for more than one driver.

IT WAS GOOD NEWS—BUT ONLY KINDA RIGHT. It is true that workers in a Starbucks store in Buffalo, N.Y. voted 19-8 to join a union on December 9. It is true that is was a first. But not in the way news outlets, like the CBC, hyped it.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DIGITIZED. Anowa Quarcoo aims to see to it.

IT WAS NO BLUFF. And the Cargill bosses knew it. They knew the 2000 members of UCFW Local 401 who work at the Cargill slaughterhouse in High River, Alberta were more than ready to strike. So the bosses kept negotiating.

UNIONS PUT THEIR SOLIDARITY ON DISPLAY on November 26. You could see in Toronto, in the many different union flags carried by the folks gathered at the corner of Steeles and Heritage Road to support the #makeamazonpay warehouse workers campaign. It was the same thing in Brampton and Ajax and in hundreds of other rallies, large and small, at Amazon shipping centres in 50 countries around the world.

IT WAS MOSTLY NURSES THIS TIME. And not for the first time. Nor likely the last. Their November 14 rally in Toronto was part of a broad, long-running battle to force the Ford government to repeal Bill 124, a 2019 law that puts a 1% wage cap on one million public service workers in Ontario, including nurses and teachers.

CALL IT A “KOJAK MOMENT.” Ask the the Occupational Disease Reform Alliance (ODRA) “Who loves ya, baby” and the answer will be instant and obvious: we do.