Synopsis
RadioLabour, the long running Canadian-based international labour news program, partners with rabble to produce a weekly Canadian edition. The programme is available every Friday afternoon.
Episodes
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Unifor president arrested while protecting pensions
24/01/2020 Duration: 14minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Unifor president Jerry Dias was arrested while picketing for the 800 workers locked out at Regina's Co-op refinery. And more.
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Uber Black drivers want to stay out of the red
17/01/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: The UFCW says Uber Black drivers are employees and eligible to unionize. And more.
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Striking back for the students
10/01/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Secondary school teachers strike against the Ford government's cuts to education. And more.
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Labour at the UN's disastrous climate conference
20/12/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour'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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Discrimination against people of faith in the workplace
13/12/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: A union organizer says help stop discrimination against people of faith. The UN's Declaration of Human Rights. And more.
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Teachers' strike and poetry on the picket line
06/12/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Ontario teachers strike for the students. And the poetry of a B.C. picket line.
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A Canadian union in Palestine
29/11/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Unifor is helping Palestinian truck drivers at the separation wall between Palestine and Israel. And more.
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Labour denounces U.S. declaration on illegal Israeli settlements
22/11/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Labour has condemned a U.S. policy change which says that Israeli settlements in Palestine are legal.
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Teachers tell Ford to stop hurting the children
15/11/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Teachers in Ontario are for students and against cuts to education -- an interview with ETFO president Sam Hammond.
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Ontario elementary and secondary teachers in strike position
08/11/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Teachers and other education workers are fighting Ford government cuts. Also, how Chicago teachers won.
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A new kind of union -- community chapters and media workers
01/11/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: How Unifor's Canadian Freelance Union represents independent media workers. And more.
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Labour lobbies for UN law to regulate multinational labour practices
25/10/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Help needed for the millions hidden in global supply chains.
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Arrested while trying to stop the killing of temporary workers
18/10/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Seven women protesting the death of temporary workers arrested while occupying Doug Ford's constituency office.
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Canada needs a publicly owned postal banking system
11/10/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: CUPW wants Canada Post to provide banking services.
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Gig workers are employees, not independent contractors
04/10/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Workers at Uber, Lyft and Foodora are employees and they want unions.
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How to protect workers so the world can move to greener economies
27/09/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Labour's fight for a just transition to green economies.
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We have only nine years left: unions support global climate strikes
20/09/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Unions support young people in their global climate strikes because it will be their world that suffers.
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Where's the beef?
13/09/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour Canada Report: Lab-grown meat and unions. A workers' revolution in the UK? Paid leave in B.C. And more.
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Every day should be Labour's Day
06/09/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report September 6 to 13, 2019. Labour's five point agenda to make every day Labour's Day.
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Teachers teaching the world about democracy
26/07/2019 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report July 26 to August 2, 2019 - Canadians help lead the struggle for democracy at the Global Congress of Education International in Bangkok.