March 31, 2023
Hong Kong’s crackdown on unions
Today, Marc Bélanger interviews the executive director of the Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor, Christopher Siu-Tat Mung.
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March 17, 2023
Artificial intelligence in the workplace
The International Trade Union Confederation has produced a report describing how automation, algorithms and artificial intelligence systems are effecting workplaces.
March 10, 2023
UN’s Status of Women conference opens
Many unionists are attending the 67th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women being held in New York until March 17, 2023.
March 3, 2023
Ukraine children killed, wounded and traumatized
Teachers are helping by purchasing generators for the schools and their bomb shelters plus organizing mental health programmes for the children.
February 24, 2023
Labour helping Pakistani garment workers
The global unions UNI and IndustriALL created a successful programme to protect garment workers in Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza disaster which killed over 3000 people. A RadioLabour interview with the deputy general secretary of UNI Global Union, Alke Boessiger.
February 17, 2023
Canada ratifies global labour law
A RadioLabour interview with CLC Executive Vice-President Siobhán Vipond.
February 10, 2023
Black women and union leadership
An interview with Karen Brown, the president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.
February 3, 2023
The heartbreak of being a teacher
Education International, which has affiliates in Canada, has started a global campaign to Go Public! Fund Education.
January 27, 2023
Unions saving the families of 50,000 Ukrainian seafarers
When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian seafarers were on their vessels away from their families. Transport unions helped by flying families out of the country, purchasing supplies and providing mental health counselling for the children.
January 20, 2023
Cancelling the right to strike in the UK
The British government has adopted legislation demanding minimum work levels during a strike.
January 13, 2023
Stop the violence against women journalists
Violence aimed at women journalists is increasing and includes threats of rape, stalking and the killing of their children.
December 16, 2022
The right to join a union is a human right
The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that everybody has the right to join a union.