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.
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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.
November 29, 2024
Working for telework
The federal government has mandated against telework. But the Public Service Alliance of Canada is fighting back for its members – and all Canadian workers.
November 22, 2024
For-profit nursing agencies are privatizing Canada’s medical system
A report by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions has shown that there has been a sharp increase in spending on for-profit nursing agencies.
November 15, 2024
Amazon trying to Americanize Canadian labour law
An interview with McGill assistant professor Barry Eidlin.
November 8, 2024
And now the resistance . . .
The United States has elected a fascist president with unchecked powers. What will the effect on Canada be?