March 14, 2025
Don’t hit, don’t kill women.
The Nova Scotia Government General Employees Union is reacting to a rise of domestic and intimate partner violence in the province with a campaign called ‘Turn The Tide.’
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March 7, 2025
Striking to teach Alberta how to treat students
Thousands of CUPE education workers in Alberta are standing up for the province’s students. Many of the workers have not had a raise in ten years, work multiple jobs and rely on food banks to feed their families.
February 28, 2025
Black unionists are creating spaces for themselves in the labour movement
Kevon Stewart is the director of District 6 of the United Steelworkers union. In November 2024 he was elected the international union’s first Black district director.
February 21, 2025
Alberta education workers fight secret anti-labour department
A secret office of the Alberta UCP government has been preventing school divisions from paying decent wages to their workers for years.
February 14, 2025
Black people? What black people?
Black workers often need to fight just to be recognized in the workplace. A report from a United Steelworkers District 6 conference on the Black Experience in Canada.
February 7, 2025
Has Amazon scared off unionization?
With the closing of warehouses in Quebec Amazon is trying to stop its workers from unionizing. But Unifor’s director of organizing, Justin Gniposky, says workers are fighting back and still want the protection of labour unions.
January 31, 2025
Ontario unions tell Ford what to do with his election
An interview with the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Laura Walton.
January 24, 2025
25% tariffs, eh? So was NAFTA a mistake?
Jim Stanford, the director of the Centre for Future Work, says Trump’s claims that Canada is subsidizing the US are complete nonsense but democracy is in peril.
January 17, 2025
The United States of Fascism
How fascism is at the core of the US national project.
December 20, 2024
How rail companies are breaking collective bargaining
Teamsters Canada is fighting corporations such as CN that are trying to destroy the constitutional right of workers to bargain collectively.
December 13, 2024
55,000 postal workers fight for millions of Canadian workers
An interview with the president of the Canadian Labour Congress, Bea Bruske on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers strike.
December 6, 2024
Trump attacks millions of workers in Ontario
A RadioLabour interview with the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Laura Walton.