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Sheila Block is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sheila's research focuses on Canada's labour markets, public finance, and inequality. She has worked as both a political advisor and a public servant in the Ontario government and as an economist in the labour movement. Sheila has an Honours B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.Jo-Ann Hannah is currently on the board of directors on the BC Financial Services Authority, which regulates pensions, credit unions, mortgage brokers, and trust companies. In 2016, Jo-Ann retired as Director of the Pensions and Benefits Department at Unifor, one of Canada's largest private sector unions. She worked with Unifor for over 25 years and bargained with many of Canada's major corporations: CN Rail, Air Canada, Rio Tinto Alcan. She was invited to speak on pension issues in Canada as well as Europe and the United States. She also represented the union in international work in various countries including Swaziland, Bolivia, and South Africa. Her education includes an MA (Psychology, UBC), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School), and PhD (Education, University of Toronto). Resources: — Sheila's Twitter: twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO— Colour Coded Retirement: www.policyalternatives.ca/ColourCodedRetirement— Sheila's Other Reports & Commentaries: www.policyalternatives.ca/authors/sheila-block— Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Toronto: twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO— BC Financial Services Authority: www.bcfsa.ca/about-us
Author: Sheila Block, Author: Jo-Ann Hanna, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-25
Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar, organizer and co-founder of Justice for Migrant Workers and Assistant Professor in Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has worked with migrant farmworkers for two decades across rural Canada, Mexico and Guatemala. She has mobilized her research in various venues such as the UN in New York, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and collaborated in various multidisciplinary projects to amplify the voices of migrant workers. Her research has focused on the experiences of Mexican migrant women who forge transnational livelihoods between Canada and Mexico. Currently, she is conducting research on the effects of the pandemic on migrant farmworkers within a transnational perspective.Resources:Evelyn's Twitter: twitter.com/professor_evyJustice For Migrant Workers: harvestingfreedom.org/who-we-are/Justice For Migrant Workers on Twitter: twitter.com/j4mwCODEMUH: codemuh.hn/El Contrato film: www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/Migrant Dreams film: www.tvo.org/video/documentaries…ams-feature-version'Contestations of the Heart' essay: www.inderscience.com/storage/f101237925168114.pdf 'Between Hearts and Pockets' essay: doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2013.834131'The Other Side of el Otro Lado' essay: doi.org/10.1086/605483
Author: Evelyn Encalada Grez, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-18
Amanda Watson is an author, lecturer, researcher, and mother of two. Her new book, The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety, is available from UBC Press. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and has a focus on feminist teaching and learning. Amanda teaches and studies theories of labour, capitalism, motherhood, care, representation, and popular culture. She also writes opinions for newspapers and magazines. Her next book project explores the politics of the BirthStrike movement for climate justice. Resources:— The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety: www.ubcpress.ca/the-juggling-mother— Amanda's website: www.amandadwatson.com/— Amanda Watson & the birthstrike movement: www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropol…on-sshrc-grant.html
Author: Amanda Watson, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-15
Kaitlyn Matulewicz has a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Victoria. Her dissertation examined how women restaurant workers' unwanted or uncomfortable sexual interactions with managers, co-workers, and customers are still happening more than three decades after sexual harassment was first named sex discrimination in Canada. She argues that restaurant work in BC is organized in such a way that uncomfortable or unwanted sexual experiences at work are made normal. Her dissertation tells the story of how law is implicated in the construction of such restaurant workplaces within which sexual harassment and unwanted sexual experiences are normalized. Kaitlyn has seven years of experience working in restaurants. She is the executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network and co-chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition. Resources:Worker Solidarity Network: workersolidarity.ca/May I?: workersolidarity.ca/addressing-sexu…rvice-industry/ May I?, zine: www.antiviolenceproject.org/wp-content/…-online.pdf F.E.D. U.P.: fedupyeg.wordpress.com/ Law, Sexual Harassment, and Restaurants: dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/8081 Law's Gendered Subtext: link-springer-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article…-9322-z Law and the Construction of Institutionalized Sexual Harassment in Restaurants: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article/603009Kaitlyn's articles for the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Bios/Kaitlyn_Matulewicz/
Author: Kaitlyn Matulewicz, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-04