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More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

David Camfield — 2025-09-02T14:18:32Z

After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers' right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Climate change and the next left

David Camfield — 2018-06-17T15:18:07Z

Climate change is already happening. But the really bad news is that there's very strong evidence that capitalism will deliver a future of catastrophic climate change that will have far-reaching effects around the world, especially in the imperialized countries of the Global South. There is a vast gap between the continuing growth of greenhouse gas emissions and the massive reductions of emissions needed to prevent widespread catastrophes.

- IV521 - June 2018 / Ecology and the Environment, Canada

Colonialism and the Working Class in Canada

David Camfield — 2014-08-24T19:26:42Z

It's good news that in a number of cities people "are meeting together in growing numbers to explore what it means - and doesn't mean - to stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples within Canada," as journalist Meg Mittelstedt wrote recently.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Canada, Indigenous struggles

Why socialists need feminism

David Camfield — 2013-03-02T11:58:32Z

The idea that socialists should be feminists too is uncontroversial to many revolutionary socialists. But why socialism needs feminism is still worth spelling out.

- Sexual politics / Women, Sexual politics, Features