2015 was a big year RankandFile.ca. We posted 330 stories, videos, interviews, news updates and job posting this year. 145 of those were original stories, news reports or interviews. We had 68 different authors writing for us. We also added a new amazing editor to our team, Tara Ehrcke, while also having three writer/organizers, Shay Enxuga, Daniel Tseghay and Denise Leduc, working for us at various points throughout the year. Our readership has also continued to grow. Thanks to all those who have contributed, either though their money or their labour, to RankandFile.ca this year. Without our writers, donors, and readers we could not have achieved all that we did in 2015. To celebrate our achievements the editors have chosen their top three stories of the year.
Gerard Di Trolio:
OFL Convention 2015: The good, the bad, and the ugly by Chris Grawey
The State and Future of CUPE: Equality, Equity & Erasure by Kimalee Phillip
The rise and fall (?) of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation by Tara Ehrcke
Samantha Ponting:
This Labour Day, let’s remember five forgotten stories of struggle by Dan Darrah
Forced Out by a Broken System by anonymous worker
Doug Nesbitt:
A cause worth fighting for: Remembering the IKEA lockout by Dot Tompkins
Fighting austerity in London, Ontario by Gerard Di Trolio
Stories of sexism in the workplace by Samantha Ponting
Andrew Stevens:
How to avoid getting “Ubered:” inside the Ottawa taxi lockout by Joel Harden
What’s happening at Nipissing University? by Susan Srigley
Charting corporate connections in the new Liberal cabinet by Samantha Ponting
Tara Ehrcke:
Advances for Air Canada workers or an opportunity lost? by Andrew Stevens
Uber must die by David Bush
What are we going to do about scabbing? by Doug Nesbitt
David Bush:
The politics of the constitutional right to strike by Charles Smith
One man’s sit-in to save door-to-door mail by Evan Johnston
Workers in Québec are in the middle of an historic moment by Nora Loreto