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Investing in Quality Public Services - Best Alternative to Austerity Cuts
2010-10-17
International Federation of Journalists
In the face of widespread cuts to public services, leaders of private and public sector trade unions, municipal governments and civil society groups have made a joint commitment to work together to pr...
Quality Public Services Also Needed in Media, Say IFJ and UNI MEI on World Public Service Day
2011-06-23
Sources News Releases
Today the International Federation of Journalists and its European group the European Federation of Journalists, together with UNI Global Union Media Entertainment & Arts (UNI-MEI) expressed their joi...

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No Fares!
Time for a free ride on public transit
Article
2007
The Tyee
This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many...
Seven News
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Seven News
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no long...
A Tale of Two Islands
Prashad, Vijay
Article
2017
CounterPunch
A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the worl...
Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Winslow, Samantha
Article
2014
Labor Notes
Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service --...

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Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Scholz, Trebor; Schneider, Nathan
Book
2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-ce...

Media

Organize
News and views on issues of concern to the half-million women and men in Canada's largest union, CUPE.
Our Ontario
For OPSEU members.

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National Film Board
Canada#s public film producer and distributor.


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