Workers and slum-dwellers organizing in the Philippines

[1]Redeye

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April 2, 2009

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A delegation of Vancouver union activists went to the Philippines on a solidarity and human rights fact-finding tour three months ago. Bill Saunders brings this report.

Artist: Bill Saunders [2]
Title: Canadian unionists visit the Phillipines [3]
Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio [4]
Genre: Interview [5]
Year: 2009 [6]
Length: 20:33 minutes (18.82 MB)
Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

The Philippines is the second most dangerous country in the world to be a union organizer. It is also a country where over a third of the people have malnutrition. The Vancouver and District Labour Council just returned from a fact-finding tour to the Philippines. We speak with VDLC president Bill Saunders.

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