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Barry Eidlin
@eidlin.bsky.social
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Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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mcgillarts.bsky.social
Labour expert and professor of sociology Barry Eidlin says Quebec law is “an existential threat to unions.”
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Montreal transit strike could be first test of new Quebec labour law - Montreal | Globalnews.ca
A strike that is upending public transit in Montreal could be the first test of a new law that gives the Quebec government broad power to end labour disputes.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
The extra hour of sleep is nice, but something else I appreciate about the shift back to Standard Time is no longer having to suppress the urge to correct people when they write “EST/PST” when they really mean “EDT/PDT” 1/
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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For Halloween this year, I’m the Honmoon from K-Pop Demon Hunters. But as I told my students in class this morning, not just any Honmoon — the Golden Honmoon. 1/
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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profsmithsask.bsky.social
Look at this gross overreach by the Quebec government. Total interference into union affairs. The unions will have to respond to protect their organizations.
Québec dépose son projet de loi sur la transparence syndicale
Le ministre Jean Boulet a déposé jeudi son projet de loi sur la transparence syndicale, qui prévoit la création de cotisations « facultatives »
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October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
In case you were wondering about this weird thing called the "notwithstanding clause" in Canada:

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What is the notwithstanding clause?
The Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work. The provision allows governments the power to override certain constitutional rights and freedoms to push legi...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
Smith UCP government: We're violating Alberta teachers' Charter rights and ordering them back to work for the kids!

The kids:
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Calgary students plan school walkouts to support teachers
Students across Alberta are walking out of class today to show support for their teachers and express their frustration with the province. Organizers Vaishnavi Venkateshwaran and Arya Mishra joined th...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
POV: you’re about to testify before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications about why government back-to-work orders are a bad idea. 1/
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
"[G]overnment action is ultimately founded on its ability to be perceived as a legitimate political actor,” says Eidlin. “And in cases where government acts in ways that are perceived as illegitimate, it is highly likely that their actions will be disobeyed.”
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As Alberta invokes the notwithstanding clause, here's what you need to know | CBC News
Alberta has invoked the notwithstanding clause to end a teachers' strike. Here's what you need to know about the history of this mechanism to override Charter rights and freedoms, and how it works.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
eidlin.bsky.social
Now that Smith's UCP has passed a law ordering Alberta teachers back to work, we'll see if the teachers exercise the "Air Canada option" and defy that law. Should be an interesting day tomorrow...

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Striking Alberta teachers to be forced back to work through notwithstanding clause | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government introduced a bill on Monday to force striking teachers back to work as early as Wednesday.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
eidlin.bsky.social
I was back on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Daybreak‬⁩ to talk about proposed changes to Quebec labour law that would erode unions’ ability to advocate for their members and workers as a whole #canlab

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October 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
eidlin.bsky.social
We showed up for the No Kings rally in Pasadena today. The kids were feeling grumpy, but thanks to the diffusion of creative Portland protest tactics, they did at least have fun chatting up the many inflatable animals on hand for the protest. #NoKings #NoICE #ICEOutOfLA #NoTrumpNoKKKNoFascistUSA
October 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
eidlin.bsky.social
Proud of my colleagues who did the work to pass this ⁦‪MAUT‬⁩ member resolution endorsing the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Symbolic and too late, yes, but still important.

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BREAKING: McGill faculty pass historic resolution supporting academic and cultural boycott of Israel - The Tribune
On Oct. 10, 2025, the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), which represents full-time professors and librarians, passed the Resolution to Endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Isra...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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"What exploitation stands for in this discursive repertoire is not necessarily the structural fact that owners claim the surplus generated by employees, but rather breaches of a moral economy triggered when managers and owners blatantly undermine workplace standards, the dignity of workers or certain relations of reciprocity organizing the implicit social contract of labor relations"
October 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Can’t even begin to express what this legend meant to the LA Labor & Immigrant Rights Movements, UCLA, and me… All I know is that there’s a Nonviolent Direct Action being organized in Heaven right now! Rest in power brother Kent! 🙏🏽💔✊🏽 #KentWong #Presente
October 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
eidlin.bsky.social
For US-based union members: The Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is hosting a workshop on November 5, 7:30 p.m. ET, on the democratic rights of union members. You can find out more and register by clicking on the link!

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Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop – Association for Union Democracy
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October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
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Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology
A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
Tens of thousands of students across Montreal universities and CÉGEPs staged a one-day strike for Palestine today, based on authorization votes taken in general assemblies and online referenda. 1/
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
With 51,000 Alberta teachers now on strike, we currently have something on the order of 130,000 workers on strike across Canada, a country with 1/10 the population of the US:

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Historic Alberta teachers' strike begins as 51,000 educators walk off the job | CBC News
Alberta school divisions are telling families not to send students to school on Monday as the largest teacher strike in provincial history cancels classes at around 2,000 schools.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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competentposter.bsky.social
wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
jordanuhl.com Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · Oct 4
Absolutely heinous.
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
eidlin.bsky.social
So! So! So! Solidarité! Avec! Avec! Avec la Palestine!

Huge march for Palestine in Montreal today 🇵🇸

Manifestation énorme pour la Palestine à Montréal aujourd’hui 🇵🇸

#AllEyesOnGaza #FreePalestine #PalestineWillBeFree #BoycottIsrael
October 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM