Wednesday, October 14, 2026

JUST SAY NO; TO ALBERTA SEPARATION! YES TO CANADA!

It’s time to rally! Join us!

Fight Back Now and Forever Canadian are teaming up for one big final push before referendum day – and we’re encouraging all Albertans to be part of the action!

Forever Canadian will be hosting two weekday INDOOR rallies – one in Calgary the evening of Thursday, October 15 and the other in Edmonton the evening of Friday, October 16.

Then, Fight Back Now will be hosting two big weekend OUTDOOR rallies – one in Calgary on the afternoon of Saturday, October 17 (part of our provincewide Day of Protest), and then the big Unity Rally at the Legislature, the afternoon of Sunday, October 18.

We’re asking you to consider attending BOTH the Forever Canadian weeknight indoor rally nearest you AND either the Fight Back Now march and rally in Calgary on Saturday or the Unity Rally at the Legislature in Edmonton on Sunday.

You send a powerful message by voting AND by showing up to protest! The bigger the crowds at BOTH the Fight Back Now events and the Forever Canadian events the better!

Bring your friends; your voices; your signs; and your Canadian flags! Say “yes” to Canada and “no” to the divisive MAGA-inspired agenda that Danielle Smith is trying to impose on our province without a mandate!

Forever Canadian Weeknight Indoor Rallies

Calgary

DATE: Thursday, October 15

TIME: Doors 5:30 pm

LOCATION: BMO Centre at Stampede Park

Edmonton

DATE: Friday, October 16

TIME: Doors 5:30 pm

LOCATION: Edmonton EXPO Centre

Fight Back Now Weekend Outdoor Rallies

Calgary Day of Protest March & Rally

DATE: Saturday, October 17

TIME: 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Gather at City Hall (800 MacLeod Trail SE) at 11 a.m. and march to McDougall Centre (455 6 Street SW) for the rally

Edmonton Unity Rally

DATE: Sunday, October 18

TIME: 1-3 p.m.

LOCATION: Legislature Building (10800-97 Avenue, Edmonton)

No tickets needed for either the Calgary Fight Back Now march and rally or the Unity Rally at the Legislature. But we ask that you RSVP HERE.

NOTE: Forever Canadian spokesperson Thomas Lukaszuk will be one of the featured speakers at the Unity Rally in Edmonton. He will also promote the Calgary Day of Protest Rally and the Unity Rally from the stage at the Forever Canadian rallies. This is what solidarity looks like!

In solidarity,

The Alberta Federation of Labour

UKRAINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

News, events and analysis

info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org
www.ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org

International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine announced for November

‘Let’s all do what we can to ensure neither Putin nor another freezing winter defeats the Ukrainian people’s resistance’.

Initiated by the European Network of Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU), supported by USC and USC Scotland. Read the convoy statement here and sign the appeal here

Convoy website

Trade Union support for the Convoy keeps growing. Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB-USS) is backing the convoy. In Belgium, the General Labour Federation of Belgium (ABVV-FGTB), and the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (ACV-CSV) expressed their support. Another major boost for the Convoy came from the University and College Union (UCU) and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) who both added to its endorsement. Read here
The Left without a ‘camp’ is travelling to Ukraine with the international convoy. Collettivo Sinistra per l'Ucraina - Laboratorio internazionalista report on the Italian leg of the International Convoy for Ukraine. Read here
Build the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine: a message for trade unionists. Liz Lawrence puts forward a number of key arguments to support trade unionists arguing for support for the forthcoming convoy in their unions. Read here.
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland has raised £10,000 for a minibus for the trade union-run children's summer camp, to bring English language children's books, medical supplies and heaters desperately needed by Ukrainians under Russian terror bombing in the harsh Ukrainian winter. See here the route it will take to Ukraine. USC Scotalnd will be participating in rallies in Rotterdam, Brussels, Berlin and Warsaw as part of the International Solidarity Convoy in support of Ukraine.

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Emergency winter appeal

Help us raise £25,000 for aid to deliver to Ukraine for aid to be delivered to Ukrainian workers in November-December 2026.

Donate here

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

US threatens to cut intel sharing, arms shipments to Ukraine to protect Russian oil refineries, according to Kyiv Independent. Read here.
The Green Party and solidarity with Ukraine: where next? Read here
The Invisible Resistance of Lviv’s Industrial Workers. Read here
On the night of October 1, Hayka was killed during an artillery strike. She was 33 years old. An anarchist, feminist, vegan, educator, marine was an embodiment of inspiration and resistance: sincere, stubborn, full of life.
Read here
You Cannot Put America First While Buying Russian Diesel, statement from Razom Ukraine Read here
Social Movement sees the curtailment of Ukrainians’ rights, as well as the reduction in aid to Ukraine as a whole, not only as a threat to the country, but also an attack on democratic and people-centred principles in Europe. Read here.

Useful links

European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine >>> https://ukraine-solidarity.eu/

Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine) >>> https://www.facebook.com/social.ruh/

Ukraine Information Group >>> https://ukraine-solidarity.org/

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland >>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/804453764446657

Commons, journal of social criticism >>> https://commons.com.ua/en/

SD Platform >>> https://sdplatform.org.ua/main/en

Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine >>> https://kvpu.org.ua/en/

Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine >>> https://www.fpsu.org.ua/

Want more women CEOs? Start with company structure, research finds

UMass Amherst-led study finds women are 37% more likely to reach the top job at companies split into separate divisions with their own financials

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Women managers are significantly more likely to be promoted to CEO at companies organized into separate business units—each with its own revenues, costs and bottom line—than at companies that operate as a single, stand-alone entity, a new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds.

Women still hold fewer than 10% of CEO positions in S&P 500 companies, despite gains over the past two decades.

“As recently as 2015, there were more men named John running major U.S. companies than there were women,” says Ulya Tsolmon, associate professor of strategy in the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst and lead author of the study published in the Strategic Management Journal. The gender gap is “not just any disparity. It’s a huge disparity.”

Tsolmon and co-author Tingyu Du, of California Polytechnic State University, reveal the explanation may have less to do with company culture and more to do with accounting.

When a manager runs a division with its own profit-and-loss statement (P&L), her results are measurable, comparable to those of the executives running other divisions—and, importantly, difficult to credit to someone else. This narrows the space for subjective judgment, where research has repeatedly found bias creeping in.

“It’s clear who has led the unit,” Tsolmon explains. A division with its own P&L makes it “much easier to say, ‘Yes, this person ran this business, and here are the results.’”

The study draws on 25 years of personnel records from the LexisNexis Directory of Corporate Affiliations, covering 616,754 managers at 49,135 U.S. companies from 1993 to 2017. Promotion to CEO was rare in any given year—occurring in about 0.56% of roughly 2.4 million manager-year observations.

Overall, the study estimates that women in multi-unit firms had a 37% higher probability of internal promotion to CEO than women in stand-alone firms. Men, by contrast, fared slightly worse at divisionalized firms.

Tsolmon and Du are careful about what the findings do not show, noting the results describe associations rather than proof that restructuring a company will produce women CEOs. They also caution that divisionalization doesn’t necessarily address inequality elsewhere, especially when it comes to who gets handed a division to run in the first place.

“The prescription is definitely not that everybody should just go out there and become divisionalized,” Tsolmon advises.

Companies do not choose their structures at random, and each carries trade-offs. Multi-unit firms delegate more, which means mentoring managers and linking incentives to results. More centralized firms rely on internal control through hierarchy, relationships and impression management, which could be more difficult for women if they have fewer chances to break into the networks that allocate resources and promotions, Tsolmon suggests.

“We tend to think about organizational structure as a question of efficiency, coordination and control,” she says. “But structure also determines what information organizations produce about people—and that can affect who gets ahead.”

She would like to see future research examine whether the gender gap emerges earlier on the career ladder, and whether the visibility of performance affects men and women differently as they climb.

“Until we really understand the mechanisms behind the disparity, it’s hard to prescribe solutions,” Tsolmon adds.

Journal

Strategic Management Journal

DOI

10.1002/smj.70128

Article Title

Firm divisionalization and the gender gap in CEO promotion