News Archive
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2022
2021
2020
2019
- Burnaby Festival of Learning
- CAWLS Conference, June 4-6 2019
- Canadian Committee on Labour History walking tour and roundtable discussions
- Careers & Pizza Lunch January 30
- Event: Teaching Labour History, Feb 15
- Everything Must Fall screening - DOXA film festival
- Gary Campbell May Day Memorial Award
- Invisible to Visible: A Symposium of Contract Faculty Work, June 4 at Congress 2019
- LECTURE: Who will look after me when I am old?
- Raven People Rising screening April 10
- World Peace Forum Teach In June 8th
2018
2017
- LBST Major Launch Party December 8, 2017
- Strategies for Solidarity: a mini-conference organized by the Place + Space Collective
- Announcement of the new Major
- Labour Trafficking 101
- Politics and Geopolitics of Trade: NAFTA and Beyond
- The Ontario Changing Workplaces Review: Lessons for B.C.
- The James Clark Undergraduate Award in Labour Studies valued at $2500 (minimum) now accepting applications
- Rising Up Posting
- Confronting Global Capital: Strengthening Labour Internationalism and Transnationalism Today
- CAWLS 4th Annual Conference
- Take the Labour Studies student survey!
- Labour History Conference 2017
- Migrant Workers Symposium
- Labour History Walking Tour
- Wage theft is most common complaint of B.C. workers: advocacy group
- The documentary film, Complicit, May 6 and 14, 2017
- Viking Economics
- Good Jobs, Good Wages
- Rally for 160 SFU Cafeteria Workers
- Joseph Mairs Memorial
2016
- Feng Xu (Political Science, University of Victoria) and Kendra Strauss (Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University) have been granted five-years of funding under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (the SSHRC) Insight Grants scheme for a project entitled ‘Workers in the aging city: Eldercare labor markets in Vancouver and Shanghai’.
- MIGRANT DREAMS, a new documentary from Minsook Lee. Also during the month of May, the film played at the DOXA documentary festival in Vancouver.
- LBST Instructor Laya Behbahani wins SFU’s 2015 Staff Achievement Award for Community Contribution (March 9)
- Joel Warren wins the 2016 David Podworny Memorial Scholarship
2015
- Jim Sinclair Tribute (January 10)
- Labour Education & History Panel with Gene Vrana (January 12)
- Women and Labour: Where Have We Been & Where Are We Going? (January 24)
- "The Rules of Revolt" Chris Hedges (February 19)
- Letter from a Labour Studies Alumnus (August 15)
- Fall 2015 Speakers' Series (poster)
- Karamat Ali: Labour Rights in Pakistan (September 18-22)
- Stephen McBride: Austerity’s Second Pillar: Restructuring Labour (October 13)
- Conference on Temporary Foreign Workers (October 8-9)
- Congratulations to Kendra Strauss on the publication of her co-edited book Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Katie Meehan)(November 15)
- Guy Standing: The Precariat: The Coming Shape of the Working Class (November 17)
- LBST Student Joel Warren Featured in FASS News (November 24)
2014
- Hari Sharma Memorial Lecture 2014: Sanjay Kak “Martyr and Witness: Reflecting on Kashmir" And a Conversation on Kashmir with David Barsamian (March 31)
- International Workers' Day - MAYDAY March and Rally (May 1)
- Stories of Solidarity: Social Media for Precarious Labour (June 18)
- Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Decline of Organized Labour (September 25)
- Michael Goldfield: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Decline of Organized Labour (September)
- "Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada" (October 8)
- Dr. Kendra Strauss on “work” in the 21st Century (October 14)
- Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection A Discussion with Sean Griffin and Dr. Mark Leier (October 16)
- BC Labour History Book Project (October 21)
- "Reproductive Labour in/of Science and Medicine" Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa, PhD (Sociology, Queen’s University) (October 23)
- Fair Employment Week Town Hall Meeting: Making Gains One Step at a Time (October 25)
2013
- 'SFU:Becoming the First Living Wage University in Canada' (February 20)
- Labour Law Panel Discussion: The Changing Role of Unions and Workers Rights in Canadian Labour Law (March 12)
- 75th Anniversary BLOODY SUNDAY, Commemoration
BC Federation of Labour and the Vancouver & District Labour Council (June 19) - The World Peace Forum Society Teach In 2013 (November 2)
- B.C. forest labour icon Jack Munro dies at age 82 (November 15)
- Vaughn Palmer: With Jack Munro, bosses knew they’d been in a fight (November 15)
- Canadian Labour International Film Festival (November 18)
2012
- Public Lecture by Dr Elaine Bernard, From Heros to Zeros: the War on Unions and the Public Sector (March 23)
- Vancouverites Protest the War on Education (March 27)
- BC Civil Liberties Association -- 2012-2013 50th Anniversary Celebration – Festschrift.
- MAY DAY 2012
- The Vancouver & District Labour Council and the BC Federation of Labour and Occupy Vancouver (May 1)
- Protecting Rights, Building Solidarity: A workshop on migrant labour and immigration issues (May 11-12)
- Work and Climate Change, Work in a Warming World (W3) and SFU Labour Studies Program (September 21)
- The War On the Workers, World Peace Forum Society Teachin-In 2012, (September 29)
- Hari Sharma Memorial Lecture 2012 (November 17)
- LABOUR START's 3rd annual GLOBAL SOLIDARITY conference (November 26-29)
2011
- Margaret and R. E. 'Lefty' and Morgan (July 28)
- Margaret Morgan's Memorial (September 18)
- Respect Our Jobs at SFU (September 22)
- BC Federation of Labour Supports "Occupy Wall Street" Movement (October 11)
- World Peace Forum Teach-In (November 11-12)
- Globalization and Migrant Labour Conference (November 25-27)
2010
- New Voices in Labour Studies: Emerging Perspectives on Workers and Workplaces, York University, Toronto, Ontario (October 15-16)
- International Women's Conference in Montreal, “For a Militant Global Women’s Movement in the 21st Century” (August 13-16)
- 2010 Labor History Conference: The Union Makes Us Strong: Inspiration, Guidance, and Hope During Hard Times is the 42nd annual Pacific Northwest Labor Association conference in Portland, Oregon (June 11-13)
- On To Ottawa Trek 75th Anniversary: The 75th anniversary event to commemorate the 1935 On to Ottawa Trek.
- Industries Find Surging Profits in Deeper Cuts (July 25)