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Anti-Labour AlterLinks Topic Index Canada After Harper His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs. Fightback in Korea Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In a climate of increasing repression, the Park Geun-hye government in South Korea is launching the latest in its series of attacks on working people. A retrograde labour reform plan is being set in motion that promises to drive down wages and undermine job security. There is broad and determined resistance to the plan, and workers and farmers are taking the battle to the streets. Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval. How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015 Labour Day issue Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights Resource Type: Audio Published: 2014 The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers. "Right to Work": Menace to Labor Against The Current vol. 157 Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A year-long battle ended in January with Indiana becoming the 23rd “Right to Work (RTW)” state — and ominously for labor, now the wedge state for opening the rest of the industrial Midwest to RTW campaigns. In neighboring Michigan, the home state of the United Auto Workers, rightwing state legislators are pushing to follow the Indiana example in the name of “competitiveness.” Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining. The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer. Wisconsin Uprising Labor Fights Back Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.

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