Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

3 hours ago

Learning through organizing is beautiful. 🥹

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

7 hours ago

Progressive organizations across Canada need to re-create the 9-hour movement but for the 4-hour workday. Especially since evidence shows we can provide decent living standards for >8 billion people with only 30% of our current resource and energy use. www.rankandfile.ca/the-nine-hou... #CDNPoli

The Nine-Hour Movement: How civil disobedience made unions legal

by Doug Nesbitt On June 14 1872, the Trade Union Act, introduced by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, became law. Unions were now legal in Canada. How did this happen and what did it take for unions ...

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

6 hours ago

😂😂😂

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

7 hours ago

Progressive organizations across Canada need to re-create the 9-hour movement but for the 4-hour workday. Especially since evidence shows we can provide decent living standards for >8 billion people with only 30% of our current resource and energy use. www.rankandfile.ca/the-nine-hou... #CDNPoli

The Nine-Hour Movement: How civil disobedience made unions legal

by Doug Nesbitt On June 14 1872, the Trade Union Act, introduced by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, became law. Unions were now legal in Canada. How did this happen and what did it take for unions ...

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

7 hours ago

LOL I did!!!!! But honestly, let's run with it.

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

8 hours ago

To be fair, so do the Liberals and the NDP. All of our major political parties are pro-corporation and anti-people to different degrees. Which is why we need a socialist alternative.

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

9 hours ago

10 years (a whole DECADE!) since my 1st trip to Fogo Island and the 1st field-season of my MSc. This was a foundational experience for who I have become today, and I'll be forever grateful for the mentorship I received from my supervisor @brettfavaro.bsky.social & all the fishermen I worked with.

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

10 hours ago

The Alberta government doesn't have money to help support people with disabilities, meanwhile they're proposing to give BILLIONS in taxpayer money to delinquent oil & gas companies to let them dodge their cleanup obligations. #ABLeg #ABPoli

Michelle Bellefontaine @mbellefontaine.bsky.social

11 hours ago

AISH recipients despair over province’s changes to disability programs.

“It's been made very clear that I'm a burden on this government, that they view disabled people as burdens, that we don't have any worth or value unless we're working. It’s gut-wrenching.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AISH recipient, advocates worry about Alberta's new disability benefit program | CBC News

A new discussion guide about the upcoming Alberta Disability Assistance Program reveals that many Albertans with severe disabilities will receive lower personal benefits after the program launches nex...

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social

10 hours ago

We need to end ALL unpaid work, and I would argue that includes time/resources needed to get to and from someone's place of employment. We barely have enough free time for ourselves, and wealthy companies should compensate workers for ANY time needed to do their job. #CDNPoli

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

1 day ago

WELL. Looks like “unpaid work” isn’t fully over for Air Canada flight attendants after all.

New details are coming out that suggest flight attendants will only be paid at 50% of their hourly rate for pre-take off tasks.

Air Canada, pay your workers!!