The USW is campaigning to force Canadian Tire to pay Bangladeshi garment workers a living wage.

Garment workers in Bangladesh earn $6 a day. Canadian Tire CEO Greg Hicks earns $12,000 a day. 

A RadioLabour interview with Guillaume Charbonneau a project officer with the Steelworkers Humanity Fund. 

RadioLabour

RadioLabour, the long running Canadian-based international labour news program, partners with rabble.ca to produce a weekly Canadian edition. The program is available every Friday afternoon.

RadioLabour is the international labour movement’s radio service. It reports on labour union events around the world with a focus on unions in the developing world. It partners with rabble to provide coverage of news of interest to Canadian workers.