There are currently five job shops in Canada: Libra Knowledge and Information Services Co-op in Toronto, ParIT Workers Cooperative in Winnipeg, the Windsor Button Collective, the Ottawa Panhandlers' Union, and the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW). The Ottawa Panhandlers' Union continues a tradition in the IWW of expanding the definition of worker. The union members include anyone who makes their living in the street, including buskers, street vendors, the homeless, scrappers, and panhandlers. In the summer of 2004, the Union led a strike by the homeless (the Homeless Action Strike) in Ottawa. The strike resulted in the city agreeing to fund a newspaper created and sold by the homeless on the street. On May 1, 2006, the Union took over the Elgin Street Police Station for a day. A similar IWW organization, the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW), has garnered local, provincial, and national news coverage for its organizing efforts in 2015.
There are currently five job shops in Canada Libra Knowledge and Information Services Co-op in Toronto ParIT Workers Cooperative in Winnipeg the Windsor Button Collective the Ottawa Panhandlers' Union and the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW) The Ottawa Panhandlers' Union continues a tradition in the IWW of expanding the definition of worker The union members include anyone who makes their living in the street including buskers street vendors the homeless scrappers and panhandlers In the summer of 2004 the Union led a strike by the homeless (the Homeless Action Strike) in Ottawa The strike resulted in the city agreeing to fund a newspaper created and sold by the homeless on the street On May 1 2006 the Union took over the Elgin Street Police Station for a day A similar IWW organization the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW) has garnered local provincial and national news coverage for its organizing efforts in 2015