December 20, 2019
Labour at the UN’s disastrous climate conference
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Activists were thrown out of the COP25 conference in Madrid when governments refused to act, but the struggle continues.
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December 13, 2019
Discrimination against people of faith in the workplace
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: A union organizer says help stop discrimination against people of faith. The UN’s Declaration of Human Rights. And more.
December 6, 2019
Teachers’ strike and poetry on the picket line
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Ontario teachers strike for the students. And the poetry of a B.C. picket line.
November 29, 2019
A Canadian union in Palestine
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Unifor is helping Palestinian truck drivers at the separation wall between Palestine and Israel. And more.
November 22, 2019
Labour denounces U.S. declaration on illegal Israeli settlements
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Labour has condemned a U.S. policy change which says that Israeli settlements in Palestine are legal.
November 15, 2019
Teachers tell Ford to stop hurting the children
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Teachers in Ontario are for students and against cuts to education — an interview with ETFO president Sam Hammond.
November 8, 2019
Ontario elementary and secondary teachers in strike position
RadioLabour Canada Report: Teachers and other education workers are fighting Ford government cuts. Also, how Chicago teachers won.
November 1, 2019
A new kind of union — community chapters and media workers
RadioLabour Canada Report: How Unifor’s Canadian Freelance Union represents independent media workers. And more.
October 25, 2019
Labour lobbies for UN law to regulate multinational labour practices
RadioLabour Canada Report: Help needed for the millions hidden in global supply chains.
October 18, 2019
Arrested while trying to stop the killing of temporary workers
RadioLabour Canada Report: Seven women protesting the death of temporary workers arrested while occupying Doug Ford’s constituency office.
October 11, 2019
Canada needs a publicly owned postal banking system
RadioLabour Canada Report: CUPW wants Canada Post to provide banking services.
October 4, 2019
Gig workers are employees, not independent contractors
RadioLabour Canada Report: Workers at Uber, Lyft and Foodora are employees and they want unions.