Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (@CambridgeUP, 2018)
Montréal, Québec
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Out now from @CambridgeUP: my book, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada. If you've been wondering what's behind union decline (and how to fix it), then check it out #labor #1u #classidea: cambridge.org/us/academic/su…
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Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism! Public Safety Canada has described anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism.
This sets a dangerous precedent for Palestinian rights.
Send an email to tell Canada’s Minister of Public Safety to retract this statement.
cjpme.org/antizionism
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Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. To this end, his new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation. jacobin.com/2026/09/carney-c…
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At a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, workers have made history by winning the first-ever union contract with the logistics giant in North America.
Their fight has meant pay raises for the company’s workers across Canada. jacobin.com/2026/09/walmart-…
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The federal government is dangerously proposing legislation to restrict legal strikes through Bill C-39.
And we're joining workers across the country saying it loud and clear: Protect Workers' Right To Strike!
@CanadianLabour
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Come for the deep dives on the history and sociology of men’s fashion, stay for the spot-on takes on the importance of critical thinking skills.
It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.
A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.
IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.
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With Bill C-39, the Carney government is asking workers to treat their bargaining power as a national liability while treating corporate access to uninterrupted profits and supply chains as the “national interest.”
theconversation.com/canadas-…
#canlab #cdnpoli
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Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
@CAWLS_ACETS is holding its 2027 annual meeting Jun 2-4 at Brock University in Canada's Niagara Region.
Check out the Call for Proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
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“Canada does not become stronger by telling workers in ports, railways and airlines that their rights must yield whenever employers invoke competitiveness or the national interest.” -@Prof_Savage on Carney government’s proposed labour law reforms. #canlab theconversation.com/canadas-…
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Small teaching wins: in my Sociology of Work and Industry class at @mcgillu @McGillARTS , I start each lecture with a song related to the world of work. Usually students keep chatting as they get settled in and ready for class. 1/
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It’s a short song, completely a cappella, just Margo Timmins’ haunting voice, singing about miners putting their lives on the line to dig gold out of the ground for their bosses. 3/
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A more extensive analysis of the Carney government’s proposed labour law reforms from @TheLawofWork . Well worth a read!
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Good overview of the proposed Canada Labour Code revisions from @TheLawofWork . He might be a bit more sanguine than I am about some of the provisions, but as he says, it’s important to think through the implications a bit more. There’s a lot to digest all at once.
I've read the Bill quickly. Some quick thoughts before I have time to write a longer piece.
It preserves and expands on the right of a single Minister to end strikes/lockouts by "email fiat": ordering CIRB to end a strike because Minister thinks its a good idea.
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Reposting my @globeandmail op-ed from last year re: Air Canada strike in light of the Carney gov't's current plan to "reform" the Canada Labour Code in a way that will curtail workers' Charter-protected right to strike. It seems that they still don't want to learn from history 1/
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"The problem is that, if governments keep showing such disregard for workers' fundamental rights, we shouldn't be surprised if workers start showing more disregard for government orders. 2/
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Bill C-39, An Act Respecting certain measures to strengthen the economy is now noted on Parliamentary website, but Bill isn't there.
This is presumably the Bill that will reform labour laws to deal with bargaining disputes in some industries. As always, devil in the details.
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My book is now on the Stanford University Press website!
sup.org/books/politics/socia…
Why are some autocracies more resilient?
The key is in mass organization and state capitalist reconstructions of neoliberalism.
The book also reformulates theories of populism and articulation.
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Very disturbing news. Yet another example of the federal government proclaiming its support for workers’ Charter rights…except when they try to exercise them.
“Several union sources CTV News spoke with are on red alert over the possibility of this legislation and contend it will strip workers of their right to strike” ctvnews.ca/politics/article/… #cdnpoli #canlab
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