Bill C-58 would amend the Canadian Labour Code to limit the ability of federally-regulated employers to use replacement workers during a labour dispute while further limiting workers' ability to strike.
The struggle facing TAs, researchers, and contract instructors is political. They are up against a management that is not only bitterly hostile to making any concessions to their demands, but which has vilified students as supporters of “terrorism” for their opposition to the imperialist-backed genocide by Israel in Gaza.
The persecution of the 11 in relation to a protest against the Indigo bookstore CEO’s support for the Israel Defense Forces is part of a global crackdown on protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and efforts to smear those opposed to Israel’s onslaught as antisemitic.