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Emma Arkell
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🔎 Labour Reporter @pressprogress.ca // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc. // UFCW 1006A 🤝

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It was 35 years tonight that Laura Palmer’s killer revealed himself 😮
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
two things wrong in the first six words! I have never seen DULF, or its founders, referred to like that before, and DULF has been covered pretty extensively for years
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
well whoever wrote that managed to get two things wrong in a single sentence
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I wrote about TSSU, their fight to organize research assistants and the teaching assistant strike that brought the university to a standstill, for @briarpatchmag.bsky.social last year

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
Inside the fight to unionize SFU
Simon Fraser University has used every tactic at its disposal to prevent its workers from unionizing. But on campus, a renewed organizing culture is ready for the fight.
briarpatchmagazine.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is an especially interesting development given that earlier this year, the Board ruled graduate research assistants at UBC are not employees of the university.
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Reposted by Emma Arkell
More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM