As Labour Day rolls around once more, that unofficial annual marking of summer’s end, it wouldn’t seem at first blush to be the best of times for organized labour. In the past, unions produced an end to child labour, weekends, overtime pay, safer workplaces, health benefits. This Labour Day, unions can look at the potential for growth in worker dissatisfaction so deep that hundreds of thousands of jobs are left unfilled. Social justice, racial justice, gender justice, climate justice are the challenges of our times and are all embodied in the aspirations of the union movement. Labour can be assured that times of great inequality, widespread anxiety and social transformation make the movement’s work more vital than ever.

Source: thestar September 06, 2022 01:26 UTC