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RadioLabour is the international labour movement’s radio service. It reports on labour union events around the world with a focus on unions in the developing world. It partners with rabble to provide coverage of news of interest to Canadian workers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A secret office of the Alberta UCP government has been preventing school divisions from paying decent wages to their workers for years.
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.
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.
An interview with the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Laura Walton.
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.
How fascism is at the core of the US national project.
Teamsters Canada is fighting corporations such as CN that are trying to destroy the constitutional right of workers to bargain collectively.
An interview with the president of the Canadian Labour Congress, Bea Bruske on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers strike.
