Jen Hassum
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About Jen Hassum
Jen Hassum is executive director of the Broadbent Institute. In the last two decades, Jen Hassum led teams at the municipal, provincial and national levels. She is recognized as an innovator in building an online community and mobilizing users to real-world action. Most recently, as the publisher of PressProgress, she helped oversee its growth into an award-winning national news organization read by millions of Canadians. Over the years, her work has contributed to historic electoral victories, winning new organized workplaces and helping win important public policy gains for working-class people.
Real populists go to bat for public workers
The Trudeau government is not interested in engaging striking PSAC workers. The Treasury Board issued a press release stating it has “done everything it can do to reach a deal.” In labour relations speak, the government is digging in.
Sunny times are over — it’s time for progressive Canadians to own this angry era
Left-wing political parties must build a multi-racial, working-class coalition for progressive change dedicated to real, measurable, material improvement in the lives of ordinary people, writes Jen Hassum.