April 9, 2021
Stop education workers from getting sick
Five unions in Ontario are demanding that teachers and other education workers be vaccinated immediately. Plus more labour news.
Podcasts
April 2, 2021
‘How do they go to bed with a clear conscience?’
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.
March 26, 2021
Expensive coats and poor wages at Canada Goose
Immigrant women at Canada Goose plants in Winnipeg are trying to unionize. RadioLabour speaks with Jo Ann Pinera of the Workers United Canada Council.
March 19, 2021
Helping women miners in Bolivia
Women working in Bolivian mines are subject to violence and sexual harassment while being paid almost nothing. Canada’s United Steelworkers are helping.
March 12, 2021
Why Ontario needs a workers’ budget
The Ontario government is planning to release a new budget on March 24. Labour says it needs to include adequate sick days, a decent minimum wage, safety for workers and more.
March 12, 2021
Nina Newington is saving Nova Scotia forests for mainland moose
Nina Newington and fellow protesters are heading to court for protesting clear-cutting in sensitive moose habitat in southwest Nova Scotia.
March 5, 2021
Climate Action Muskoka — in their own voices
Maya Bhullar talks to Sue McKenzie and Linda Mathers about how they organized to have their cottage country municipality declare a climate emergency.
March 5, 2021
Labour fights right-wing racist ad on Facebook
A right-wing group is running an ad saying racialized groups should not get vaccine priority. The Canadian Labour Congress is running an online campaign against the ad.
February 26, 2021
Uber drivers are workers, says U.K. court
The Supreme Court in the U.K. has ruled that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. They are workers employed by the company so deserve to be compensated as such.
February 25, 2021
Engage Barrie shows you CAN fight city hall
In the first of our “rabble rousers to watch” podcasts, we have a conversation about Engage Barrie, a group trying to bring about progressive political change in a very conservative city.
February 19, 2021
Tax the rich
The top 1 per cent of wealthy people in Canada own about 25 per cent of all the wealth in the country. Unions and the Broadbent Institute are calling for Canada’s wealthy to pay their fair share.
February 12, 2021
Fighting wage controls in Ontario
Ontario’s unions say Bill 124, which restricts wage increases and benefit improvements in the public sector, violates bargaining rights enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.