Let's Celebrate Unions this Labour Day Monday is Labour Day and we in Canada have a lot to celebrate.
Canadian unions are more progressive on women's issues than any unions in the world.
They are enormously supportive of community organizations and have been at the centre of the struggle against the attempts of the Right to destroy the welfare state. Their very existence makes a huge difference to the average working women and man in this country. Yet no other institution gets a worse rap in the media than trade unions. There is a marked and consistent bias in the media against unions. Yet the real bosses, CEO's of corporations, are rarely described as bosses in the media.