Labour

Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Noel Colina, executive director of the Filipino OHS group IOHSAD, about a shopping centre fire that killed 18 workers in Mindanao, Philippines.

Even after a press conference yesterday in Ottawa, we still do not know the details as to exactly what EI changes the government will bring about.

Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region, followed by an interview about the recent Bersei demonstrations for clean and free elections in Malaysia, with Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

Harper has his majority and now he is free to wreak havoc on Canadian families.

The Time We All Went Marching brings the struggle of working-class men and women in the 1930s and 1940s to life through luminescent prose.

In Ontario's Peel Region and Renfrew County, welfare workers have put on their walking boots!

The significant changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program which are to be quickly implemented through Budget 2012 with very little consultation have not received enough critical attention.

Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest is a new comic produced by the Graphic History collective. It traces the history of Mayday from its beginning in the late 1800s to its expression in Canada today.

Across Spain, reports here confirm that hundreds of thousands of people have been marching under the slogan of 'We don't owe; we won't pay.'

Some policy wonks believe it would be more cost-effective to have a smaller proportion of teaching done by those who also engage in research. It's an à-la-carte way of ordering course instructors.

Even before the expansion of the program envisioned in the current omnibus "budget" bill, temporary foreign workers already accounted for almost 30 per cent of all net new paid jobs created in Canada.

This Smash the State Report starts off with the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec student strike, the Yinka-Dene Freedom Train and much more!

On this episode, a short history of May Day, organizing labour and resisting austerity -- including a reading from Libcom - A Short History of Mayday and a what's next from Occupy Belfast.

In the past, Barrick Gold has been accused of creating poverty, wreaking environmental destruction and committing human rights violations in various countries where it operates.