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A new vision for the role of care in Canada
Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Armine Yalnizyan, Leah Vosko | If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country.
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Why the union vote at Amazon lost
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Amazon workers were subject to intense anti-union tactics by management. National Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO Richard Bensinger discusses the implications for Canada.
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Investing in a feminist economic recovery
Maya Bhullar | Feminist recovery plan author Anjum Sultana discusses what a feminist recovery must look like to help women in Canada.
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Stop education workers from getting sick
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Five unions in Ontario are demanding that teachers and other education workers be vaccinated immediately. Plus more labour news.
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No place for sick pay in Doug Ford's anti-worker government
Rick Salutin | Let's be clear on what refusing to protect essential workers with sick pay essentially means in the Ford lexicon: it means refusing to protect workers, period, with sick pay or anything else.
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It's time to pivot to the care economy and invest in care
Armine Yalnizyan | The care economy could power a better life, not just a bigger economy, if we address issues revealed by the pandemic.
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'How do they go to bed with a clear conscience?'
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Garment workers in Bangladesh earn $6 a day doing unsafe jobs. And Canadian companies are at fault. The United Steelworkers are trying to help. Plus more labour news.
Podcast
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Expensive coats and poor wages at Canada Goose
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Immigrant women at Canada Goose plants in Winnipeg are trying to unionize. RadioLabour speaks with Jo Ann Pinera of the Workers United Canada Council.
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The many burdens of women's work
Chelsea Nash | Karen Messing's new book is an intervention into the sex- and gender-based challenges of work.
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Jeremy Corbyn challenges progressives to act globally but never forget the working class
Karl Nerenberg | Jeremy Corbyn spoke with hundreds of Canadians this past weekend, in an online event organized to raise funds for Progressive International.
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Helping women miners in Bolivia
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Women working in Bolivian mines are subject to violence and sexual harassment while being paid almost nothing. Canada's United Steelworkers are helping.
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Uber's global fight against its workers' rights
Chelsea Nash | Uber has invested hundreds of millions into avoiding the reclassification of its workers as "employees" worldwide.
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