Soon📆 Feb: Pivoting from academia to organized labour work for Rethinking Gramsci Mar: 1:1s building power through conversation for CSU How to organize a union with Selena PB for SEIZE Jun: Indie union organizing in NA with Tom MacMillan & Liss Hyde for CAWLS-ACETS

Hey Canadians! If you’re interested in getting involved with labour and organizing at the workplace, Maxim Baru & Selena PB are good people with invaluable experience organizing across lots of industries.

TONIGHT Heading over to the inaugural edition of the Harbinger Soapbox Series to talk union & learn about Canada's cursed media landscape from Rob, nashwa & Paris Marx feat. Palestinian Youth Movement CKUT Pivot CUTV +++ ➡️8pm eventbrite.ca/e/news-sucks-w…

This Friday! Pull out those 3D movie glasses for a one of a kind screening of the killing floor (1984)* After the film, I’ll be joining McGill University Professor Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey to talk about forging bridges between organized labour & the academy. *film not actually 3d.

📢Friday, March 1st, at 4:30 PM, Thomson House📢 Join Maxim Baru and McGill HCS Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey for a screening of The Killing Floor and a discussion on the intersection between academia and activism! Thank you to Groupe STASIS for co-organizing this event.

Pleasure to join the brilliant Camille Robert & Tom MacMillan at this conference last week

Do you harbour a secret jealously of all these cool kids involved in unions? It's okay to admit it! 7 March @ 18:00 → Selena PB & I will be doing a course on how you too can experience the pleasure of teaming up to bully your boss with a cause (1455 de Maisonneuve O, H-820)

Tonight! At Concordia University’s Hall Building. 5th floor, room 544.

Flower dresses, picnic baskets, baguettes: these are all beautiful summertime symbols of Montreal that won't be found at CAWLS-ACETS's 10th Annual Conference. But! You will get Liss Hyde+Tom MacMillan+me talking about union action, MTL's other beloved summer tradition

“Right now there's a real spirit of movement and solidarity in Quebec across industry lines. It's not just healthcare workers, it's not just the artists but everybody. People are getting organized” Laurence D. Dubuc monitormag.ca/articles/quebe…

Venez célébrer avec nous les 20 ans et le 100ème numéro de la revue À bâbord ! Mercredi 19 juin 2024, 19h, à La Cabane (1695 Bélanger Est, Montréal) ababord.org/Soiree-20eme-a…

This Wednesday ⤵️ Laurence D. Dubuc & I talk organizing in culture in 📖 the 100th issue of À bâbord!

Ma dernière publication avec Maxim Baru sort officiellement la semaine prochaine, mais les célébrations du 20e anniversaire de la À bâbord! ont lieu ce mercredi !! 👇🏻

This Friday → No choice but to get there from here. Talking labour union strategy with Liss Hyde & Tom MacMillan at CAWLS-ACETS's 10th annual work + labour studies conference.

BREAKING: Workers at EC Montreal Language Centre Join The General Union as staff organize to secure better pay and working hours. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ syndicatgeneral.com/blog/centredel…

Book launch📙🚀 Sep 20 at 7pm in Toronto Join me and Stephanie Ross in conversation with Luke Savage at the Toronto launch of Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers & the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics. Click link for details 👇 fb.me/e/52pQLlrPh #canlab #cdnpoli

From teaching tenses to taking stances: impressed with Montreal’s language teachers taking on multinational with new indie union. Easy parts over. Can they achieve state of affairs better than pre-established options? Yes. Time to prove concept. syndicatgeneral.com/blog/ec-montre…

“Joe Beef group, which includes four Montreal restaurants, lost around 95 per cent of its 100-plus staff over the course of the pandemic. This upheaval prompted a more thoughtful approach to the work environment.” So unified withdrawal of labour led to change?