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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Unions call for action to stop COVID deaths in long-term care
05/02/2021 Duration: 15minThe Ontario Health Coalition organized an online rally to protest 3,638 deaths -- and counting -- in long-term care homes. Labour organizations are demanding action.
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Re-unionizing America
29/01/2021 Duration: 15minJoe Biden is planning to implement the Protect the Right to Organize Act, which will allow access to unionization for hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers plus weaken so-called "right to work" laws.
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Why hundreds were infected at the Cargill meat plant
22/01/2021 Duration: 15minAn interview with UFCW Local 401 communications officer Michael Hughes about the COVID-19 outbreak at the Cargill plant in Alberta where hundreds were infected and two workers died.
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Labour fights to implement UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
15/01/2021 Duration: 15minBill C-15 would affirm the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is applicable to Canadian law. Unifor's Indigenous Liason Gina Smoke discusses labour's fight to have the bill passed.
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Fighting the rise of the radical right wing
08/01/2021 Duration: 15minAs fascism increases in the U.S. and Britain, unions have released a guide on how labour unions can fight back.
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Union rights are human rights
11/12/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. How to confront the far right. And more.
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Saving Alberta's advanced education from privatization
04/12/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees is fighting ideological cuts to advanced education. Global wages fall because of the pandemic. And more.
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Ontario won't fund the fight to save kids from COVID-19
27/11/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: The Ontario government has $9 billion to spend on schools, but refuses. Violence against women transport workers. And more.
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New ways to fight grocery corporations needed
20/11/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Dominion workers won more full-time jobs, but new bargaining strategies needed. The pandemic's effect on women teachers. And more.
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What African unions want from Biden
13/11/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: South Africa's COSATU wants a workers first agenda. Why huge data collection on students threatens privacy. And more.
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Ontario government withholds $9 billion in COVID funding
06/11/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: 500 Ontario schools hit by virus while government withholds money. Union organizing during a pandemic.
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Make Air Canada the people's airline again
30/10/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: An Air Canada bailout should mean government shares. The Canadian Labour International Film Festival. And more.
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Extraditing Julian Assange would criminalize journalism
23/10/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Why Assange should not be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. The Newfoundland strike for Canadian grocery workers. And more.
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How a little newspaper started labour journalism in Canada
16/10/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: More than a century ago the Rossland Evening World in B.C. showed what a union newspaper could be. Plus the plight of Amazon workers.
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21,000 health-care workers infected with COVID-19
09/10/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Nurses' union says governments have mismanaged the pandemic. And the Ontario Labour Relations Board rules against education unions.
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The huge holes in Canada's social safety net
02/10/2020 Duration: 14minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Labour is demanding services such as unemployment insurance must be fixed now.
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Fighting anti-Indigenous racism in media coverage
25/09/2020 Duration: 30minRadioLabour's Canada Report: a Unifor webinar focused on racism and genocide against Indigenous people and provided solutions.
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Striking Dominion workers fighting for all grocery employees
18/09/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: grocery workers in Newfoundland and Labrador on strike to maintain pandemic pay and full-time jobs. Reforming post-pandemic corporations. And more.
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Labour's action plan for a post-pandemic Canada
11/09/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report returns with a new season. The Canadian Labour Congress program for a greener economy and full employment.
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How Foodora couriers won a major union victory
26/06/2020 Duration: 15minRadioLabour's Canada Report: Foodora workers proved that couriers are dependent workers. Plus: 200,000 seafarers are stuck at sea. And more.