Canadian Auto Workers

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on March 14, 2012, at the University of Toronto. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare O’Connor Baolinh Dang (Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement) Cam Hardy (Platypus) Megan Kinch (#Occupy, Toronto Media Co-Op) Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers) Moderated by Ashley Weger (Platypus) [Read More]

LAST NOVEMBER PLATYPUS organized a teach-in led by Sam Gindin of the Canadian Auto Workers on “Public Sector Unionism, Austerity and the Left” at York University in Toronto. An audio and video recording is available above. What follows is an edited version of the interview Andony Melathopoulos of Platypus conducted with Gindin as a follow up to the teach-in. Andony Melathopoulos: Clearly these are not very good times for public sector unions, not only in Canada but worldwide. [Read More]