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rabble radio June 16
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From epidemic to pandemic: rethinking health
Episode four of the Courage My Friends podcast asks: 'What can Indigenous philosophies teach us about health and wellness?' With guests Zoë Dodd and Keith McCrady.
RadioLabour June 11
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New CLC president to be elected
The national convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will elect a new team of officers. An interview with presidential candidate Beatrice Bruske. And more labour news
rabble radio June 9
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Sustainable food and zero hunger: the future and the right to eat
Resh Budhu talks to Paul Taylor of Foodshare about the pandemic, food security and the right to food.
RadioLabour June 4
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CUPE fights for imprisoned LGBTQ peace activist in Turkey
CUPE is trying to get a member released from a Turkish jail. Teachers want climate change built into school curricula. And more.
rabble radio June 2
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Labour and economic security: bread and roses in a post-pandemic world
In episode two, anti-poverty activist John Clarke and union leader Paul Meinema talk about how capitalism has converged with COVID to make things worse for all except the wealthy.
RadioLabour May 28
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A successful union drive without a vote
WestJet airport agents in Calgary and Vancouver joined Unifor by signing union cards. Plus more labour news.
rabble radio May 26
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'Courage My Friends' Podcast Episode 1: The Convergence: COVID, Capitalism, Climate
In the first of a six part series, a conversation with Ed Broadbent and Kofi Hope about what COVID is revealing about our world and country. A rabble.ca and Tommy Douglas Institute coproduction.
RadioLabour May 21
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Country music and workers
Country music used to be about the experiences of working people. Has it now become a tool for the right wing? Plus more labour news.
RadioLabour May 14
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Steelworkers' national director to retire
Ken Neumann, the United Steelworkers' national director, is retiring. He talks with RadioLabour about his career and the future of the labour movement.
RadioLabour May 7
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Canada Pension Plan privatizing in Brazil
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is helping Brazil's right-wing government to privatize a public water system in Rio de Janeiro. Plus labour's plans for the climate crisis.
RadioLabour April 30
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How CUPE started the International Day of Mourning
A little H&S committee named April 28 as the International Day of Mourning which is now recognized around the world. Plus Biden's plan to unionize thousands.
RadioLabour April 23
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The world needs a corporate minimum tax
Canada would gain at least $11 billion per year in corporate tax revenue from a global minimum tax rate at 21 per cent as proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden.
RadioLabour April 16
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Why the union vote at Amazon lost
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.
rabble radio April 12
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'Volunteering is about trying, not perfection': rabble rouser Maureen Huot
Maureen Huot, one of rabble.ca's rabble rousers to watch, talks about the multiple causes and people she supports, and her thoughts about being an ally.
RadioLabour April 9
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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.
RadioLabour April 2
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'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.
RadioLabour March 26
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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.
RadioLabour March 19
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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.
rabble radio March 12
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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.
RadioLabour March 12
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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.
rabble radio March 5
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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.
RadioLabour March 5
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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.
RadioLabour February 26
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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.
rabble radio February 25
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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.
RadioLabour February 19
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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.
RadioLabour February 12
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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.
RadioLabour February 5
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Unions call for action to stop COVID deaths in long-term care
The Ontario Health Coalition organized an online rally to protest 3,638 deaths -- and counting -- in long-term care homes. Labour organizations are demanding action.
RadioLabour January 29
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Re-unionizing America
Joe Biden is planning to implement the Protect the Right to Organize Act, which will allow access to unionization for hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers plus weaken so-called "right to work" laws.
RadioLabour January 22
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Why hundreds were infected at the Cargill meat plant
An interview with UFCW Local 401 communications officer Michael Hughes about the COVID-19 outbreak at the Cargill plant in Alberta where hundreds were infected and two workers died.
RadioLabour January 15
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Labour fights to implement UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Bill C-15 would affirm the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is applicable to Canadian law. Unifor's Indigenous Liason Gina Smoke discusses labour's fight to have the bill passed.

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