Work, work, work
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK – UPDATE 12th MARCH 2010
EVENTS
BRIDGING THE GAP: RALLY IN SUPPORT OF SUDBURY STEELWORKERS
USW Local 6500 is in the hometown fight of their lives. Our members have been fighting strong for 8 months.
On Monday, March 22nd at 4:30 pm we are having a massive rally to show the solidarity and support that our local has from our members, our community, our province, and from around the world. There are 30 delegates from around the world (Brazil, Germany, Australia, Geneva, Indonesia, Zambia, and more) who have already committed to attending. Can I count on you to attend as well? Can I count on you to share this message with everyone you know?
We are looking for community members, organizations, clubs, unions, political groups, and community businesses to attend. Show up in large numbers and bring your banners, your flags and your signs! We need your help!
For more info, email: usw@uswsudbury.ca
+++++
NORMA SCARBOROUGH: TRIBUTE TO A PRO-CHOICE FIGHTER
Saturday, April 17
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Koffler House
569 Spadina Avenue, Room 108, Toronto
Join us to pay tribute to Norma Scarborough’s life of feminism and pro-choice activism. Memorial donations will be accepted for the Canadians for Choice Norma Scarborough Fund.
For more information or to donate to the fund, please contact Canadians for Choice at info@canadiansforchoice.ca
+++++
THE FIFTH (AND FINAL) ANNUAL SOUTHERN ONTARIO SOCIAL ECONOMY NODE SYMPOSIUM
April 12 (8:30-4:30) and 13 (8:30-3:30)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,
252 Bloor St W. (St. George subway station), Ground Floor Library
Keynote:
The Social Economy: A New Way to Manage Wealth
Michel Labbé, President and Founder of Options for Homes and more recently Options for Green Energy.
Interactive sessions with academic and community researchers who will share their work and insights
Short workshops on topics relevant to social economy organizations
A preliminary program is below and more information is posted on our website: http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/symposium_10.php
There is no cost for this event. However, registration is required: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/95GS5NH
+++++
THE GREEN ECONOMY: PRACTICAL STRATEGIES TO CREATE COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-ECONOMIES
Taught by Brian Milani, author of Designing the Green Economy: the postindustrial alternative to corporate globalization
30 Hours over 10 weeks, Thursdays
April 8-June 10, 6 to 9pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
U of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W.
(directly above St. George subway stop)
Eighth Floor, Room 8-214
Cost: $180
The Green Economy is an overview of radical potentials for reorganizing the economy for social and ecological purposes, while at the same time showcasing exciting alternatives being built right now in the existing economy.
The premise of the course is that today’s social, economic and environmental crises are not problems of management, but of design. A process of economic conversion is necessary to create economic structures which facilitate human self-development, social justice, community enrichment and ecological regeneration.
Sponsored by the Transformative Learning Centre, OISE.
For more info: http://www.greeneconomics.net/cour2010.htm
+++++
APRIL 28: DAY OF MOURNING FOR INJURED, KILLED, OR SICK WORKERS
On Christmas Eve 2009, four workers in Toronto were killed and one seriously injured when a construction swing stage snapped in half and plummeted 13 storeys to the ground. Another 400 Ontario workers were killed the same year and about 374,000 were injured.
On Wednesday, April, 28th, we remember our sisters and brothers who have been killed on the job or who have died as a result of workplace diseases. This special day also offers an opportunity to re-dedicate our efforts to achieve healthier and safer workplaces and seek justice and fair compensation for injured workers.
For more details visit: http://www.whsc.on.ca/events/day_mourn.cfm
+++++
CITY IS A SWEATSHOP: MARCH 19 & 20
As we prepare to flood the streets of Toronto on May Day (May 1, 2010), and as we build our resistance to the G8/G20 Summits coming to Toronto in June 2010, this series of events will lay out a vision for a city that includes everyone that lives, works, loves and struggles here.
More details: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/422
+++++
NEWS & VIEWS
WE’VE SOLD OFF ASSETS SO OFTEN, BRANCH PLANTS ‘R’ US
In a global economy, a country needs global companies, headquartered at home. Canada doesn’t have enough of them… Other countries know this. In Brazil, Vale is shielded from unwanted takeover by the government’s “golden shares,” which give authorities veto power. No Brazilian government would dream of allowing Vale to fall into foreign hands, whereas Ottawa waves takeovers through like a cop trying to speed traffic along.
To read more: http://bit.ly/bGCUnJ
+++++
WOMEN’S EQUALITY HAS DECLINED UNDER HARPER TORIES
Describing it as a “Reality Check,” labour and women’s groups have issued a stinging new report describing Canada’s lagging performance in achieving women’s equality.
The report, entitled Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On, cites regression in everything from pay equity to child care. It was prepared by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action and the Canadian Labour Congress.
To read more: http://www.nupge.ca/content/womens-equality-has-declined-under-harper-tories
+++++
WORKERS, BANKING, AND CRISIS IN MEXICO
A striking feature of the global financial crisis is the narrow and technical focus on banks and financial corporations without accounting for ordinary workers in these institutions and in society more broadly. Yet through the intensification of work, workers have also underwritten the profitability of finance. This has been generally ignored.
In the nexus between workers, banking, and crisis, the case of Mexico is revealing due to the nature, evolution, and history of its emerging capitalist banking system. Examining the conditions of workers in Mexico is particularly important because it helps to explain not only the increase in bank profitability leading up to the global financial crisis but also the capacity of banks in Mexico to weather its worst consequences.
This focus seeks to complement, not replace, analyses concerned with large interest differentials, rising commissions and fees, as well as usurious consumer and state debt servicing.
To read more: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/323.php
+++++
BUDGET 2010: OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY
This budget includes two major measures: another tax cut for business and ongoing cuts to federal public services.
Check out CUPE’s comprehensive budget analysis on everything from climate to child care to EI to education, water, women and more.
To read more: http://cupe.ca/budget/budget-2010-overview-analysis-summary
+++++
VIDEO: TORONTO RALLY FOR STEELWORKER LOCALS 6500 AND 6200 ON STRIKE AT VALE INCO
Three years ago, Vale – a giant multinational corporation, based in Brazil – bought Canada’s mining company Inco. Now it has forced 3,500 miners and smelter workers in Sudbury, Port Colborne and Voisey’s Bay out on strike. It’s demanding huge rollbacks in pensions, nickel bonus and seniority rights.
+++++
JOB POSTINGS
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR, RAINBOW HEALTH ONTARIO, TORONTO
Deadline: March 29, 2010
Full job description: http://www.sherbourne.on.ca/PDFs/jobs/RHO-10-0207-Comm-Coordinator-FT.pdf
+++++
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR, OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, TORONTO
Deadline: 5pm March 15, 2010
For more information on this position follow this link: http://www.charityvillage.com/cvnet/viewlisting.aspx?id=209592&eng=true&
+++++
COMMUNITY URBAN FORESTRY INTERNS (3), SUMMER, GREENHERE, TORONTO ON
Start Date: June 14 2010
End Date: August 13 2010
Employment Type: Full time
Closing Date: March 19 2010
Organization: GreenHere http://www.greenhere.ca
Please submit your cover letter and resume by mail or email to: info@greenhere.ca
Mail: 21 Blackthorn Ave., Toronto, Ontario M6N 3H4
(from Canada’s Green Job Site, http://www.GoodWorkCanada.ca)
++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++
OUR MANDATE:
The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
Our major project is APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning. This five-year project (2009-2013), funded by SSHRC-CURA, brings academics and activists together in a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns and use popular education.
This is a moderated list. To send postings to the list, please email them to rhonda_sussman@yahoo.ca
To change your subscription settings, visit http://listserv.oise.utoronto.ca/mailman/listinfo/csewbroadcast
For more information about CSEW, visit: http://www.csew.ca
*END*
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski 