"The right to be heard, but ignored, is not worth the effort."
Elaine Bernard - Harvard Labor and Worklife Program
"Imagine There’s No Labour Board"
KNOWING THE WORDS AND YOUR RIGHTS
AN ESL COURSE ON HEALTH AND SAFETY
By Janet Nicol
"Kill a worker, go to jail," reads the poster hanging in the office of Gord Lechner, director of the B.C. Federation of Labour's health and safety centre. Tonight, people are attending, free of charge, one of the centre's unique offerings: an English as a Second Language course on health and safety.
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TALKING ABOUT ORGANIZING:
A SERIES
WEBWORK: Take Back the Net
By Derek Blackadder
Always implicit, and sometimes embarrassingly explicit, in the online utopian screeds of the '90s was the hope or assumption that nastiness like racism and sexism were ideological impositions on workers and that, once free of corporate media, we'd be free of that, too. Nice sentiment.
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BETWEEN TIMES:
FEATURED ONLINE ONLY
WHY SO LITTLE PUBLIC RESPONSE FROM LABOUR TO BANGLADESH'S GIANT TRAGEDY?
Letters to Our Times' Editor
By Dave Bennett, with a response from Jorge Garcia-Orgales
I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Labour Congress Pensioners' and Retirees' Association to protest the weak response from the Canadian labour movement to the recent building collapse in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,100 workers.
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