News Archive
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March 27, 2024
Sponsored by SFU Labour Studies Program, Decolonise Palesine Teach-in, Faculty4Palestine SFU...
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February 15, 2024
Labour Studies alumna, Jenelle Davies, graduated in October 2023 and is currently working for the...
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Congratulations to Melanie Budisusilo for winning the Fall 2023 Gary Campbell May Day Memorial AwardDecember 29, 2023
Join us in congratulating Melanie Budisusilo, the recipient of Fall 2023 Gary Campbell May Day...
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December 15, 2023
Labour Studies instructor Jade Ho and her students recently hosted an open house event showcasing...
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December 13, 2023
On November 19, 2023, John-Henry Harter, a lecturer in our Labour Studies Program, received the...
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December 13, 2023
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November 15, 2023
Sponsored by the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF) and the Labour Studies...
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October 20, 2023
The undersigned members of the Labour Studies Program at SFU stand with our colleagues and comrades...
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October 19, 2023
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October 11, 2023
Sponsored by the Labour/Le Travail, Canadian Committee on Labour History, Labour Studies Program at...
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October 06, 2023
The faculty members in Labour Studies stand in solidarity with our colleagues and coworkers in...
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August 23, 2023
We are now accepting appliations for the Labour Studies Program awards! The Gary Campbell May Day...
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July 27, 2023
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May 17, 2023
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April 19, 2023
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April 04, 2023
Congratulations to Christina Salvador for receiving this year’s James Clark Undergraduate...
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March 23, 2023
Congratulations to Alyssa Mossman, the recipient of this year's Gary Campbell May Day Memorial...
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March 03, 2023
Congratulations to Sociology Professor Evelyn Encalada Grez, the recipient of CERi...
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March 13, 2023
With Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC, the Labour Studies Program has partnered and is sponsoring...
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February 17, 2023
Why is Canada snubbing internationally trained doctors during a health-care crisis? Our Assistant...
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January 20, 2023
Kelvin Gawley, a Labour Studies student, recently wrote a piece on the Contract Worker Justice @...
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December 22, 2022
Happy holiday greetings to you and yours! Our office will be closed from Dec 23 to Jan 2, and will...
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December 19, 2022
Applications are now open for Undergraduate Scholarships, Awards and Bursary. Apply before January...
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October 21, 2022
Free and online Zoom Webinar! Friday, October 21, 10am - 4pm and Saturday, October 22, 10am -...
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August 25, 2022
Don't miss the upcoming deadline (Oct 20, 2022) for the The Gary Campbell May Day Memorial Annual...
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July 14, 2022
Screening of "A Time to Rise" and Discussion July 29, 2022 at 5:30 pm SFU Harbour Centre...
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June 01, 2022
Congratulations to the Labour Studies students graduating this June! We hope to see you at the...
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April 01, 2022
In January we interviewed Labour Studies and Sociology Assistant Professor Maureen Kihika and...
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March 25, 2022
Congratulations to Cristina Figueroa, the recipient of this year's James Clark Undergraduate Award...
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January 11, 2022
The African Ancestry Project (AAP) is an initiative that aims to explore the histories, identities,...
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January 27, 2022
The deadline to apply for this year's James Clark Undergraduate Award is February 20, 2022. Visit...
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Research Assistant Opportunity: Labour Studies Webinar Series
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Geography PhD student Kathryne Gravestock wins 2020 CAWLS New Voices Prize
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Evelyn Encalada Grez brings 20 years labour organizing experience to SFU’s Labour Studies program
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Ben Anderson publishes: Beers and Fries, Please Don’t Unionize!
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Marjorie Griffin Cohen awarded the 2020 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research
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Paid sick leave finally on the agenda: Here’s why it matters
- 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)