April 18, 2025
The Telus workers in Turkey who screen child abuse TikTok videos
Canadian unions like United Steelworkers have condemned the treatment of Telus’ Turkish employees.
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April 11, 2025
American scholars moving to Canada, eh?
An interview with the president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Peter McInnis.
March 28, 2025
Why Ontario's special needs students need to be treated specially
The Ontario government has been underfunding the education of special needs students and that affects all students. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has released a report about the situation and what can be done. An interview with ETFO first vice president David Mastin. The LabourStart Report about union events. RadioLabour is the international labour…
March 28, 2025
Why Ontario’s special needs students need to be treated specially
The Ontario government has been underfunding the education of special needs students and that affects all students. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has released a report about the situation and what can be done.
March 21, 2025
BC LifeLabs workers strike against American corporation
The 1,200 employees of the American-owned company LifeLabs in British Columbia have been conducting rotating strikes to improve their wages, working conditions and medical services in the province.
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.