Free parking - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Aug 28 2016 23:24
In this piece Phinneas Gage recalls the challenges of organizing under punitive back to work legislation and the effect it had on shop floor organising. As tensions grow over a dispute about the safety of various parking arrangements around renovated facilities the shop again begins to mobilise. Then tragedy strikes and the workers are reminded that sometimes the cost of a partial victory can be as great as any defeat.
Concrete examples of non labour relations board unions: part III - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Nov 8 2015 04:38
The third part of a series of concrete examples and very brief summaries of organizations that have some component of direct action and a form of collective bargaining that operate outside the labour relations framework.
Concrete examples of non-Labour Relations Board unions (Part II) - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Oct 19 2015 00:01
The second part of a series of concrete examples and very brief summaries of organizations that have some component of direct action and a form of collective bargaining that operate outside the labour relations framework.
Concrete examples of non-Labor Relations Board union: part 1 - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Sep 19 2015 18:38
A piece by Phinneas Gage detailing some examples of labour struggles that happened outside of state labour board strategies.
Snake march - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:52
Concluding Phinneas Gage’s three-part series on struggles at the Canada Post during 2011, we present ‘Snake march’. In this final installment, he describes the moral as the lockout drags on. Parliamentary filibusters and symbolic occupations fail to turn the tide on contract negotiations. The postal workers return to work, determined to not let management bulldoze them in the shopfloor.
Buffalo Jump - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:39
The second in a three part series about a strike at Canada Post. Phinneas Gage describes how the strike rolled on as the workers faced a common challenge of workplace battles. The government, employers, and national union began making moves to diffuse the situation and try to control the actions of the workers.
Turning up the Heat - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:21
The first of a three part series that detail a set of organizing actions by postal workers in Canada during 2011. It is written by fellow Recomposition editor Phinneas Gage who expounds on the actions that led up to the CUPW strike, the predicaments that workers faced challenging management, and the indelible memory of seeing management flee an angry mob of strikers.
On Bluffing - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Dec 4 2014 02:58
An article by Phinneas Gage, in which he analyzes three instances in different organizing scenarios where bluffing, whether premeditated or spontaneous, helped leverage reactions that would not have otherwise happened.
Neither the “open shop” nor the dues check-off - Phinneas Gage
An article by Phinneas Gage that lays out some of the ways 'dues check-off', where employers deduct dues from paychecks and give it to the union, hurts workers.
Scabs! part II: the St. Albert wildcat
Submitted by Recomposition on Feb 11 2014 03:28
This entry is the second part in a two-part story from contributor Phinneas Gage about a wildcat strike by contractors at the Canadian postal service, and continues our coverage of struggles within Canada Post.
