RadioLabourCanada

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  • The world needs 69 million more teachers

    To produce quality education teachers need decent pay, adequate facilities and appropriate training.

    The global union Education International represented teachers around the world at a recent UN conference. EI's affiliated unions in Canada include the Canadian Teachers' Federation and the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

    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.

    6 min
  • The federal Conservatives are now the Convoy Party of Canada

    RadioLabour returns with a critique of Pierre Poilevre's recent appointment of leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

    CUPE National President Mark Hancock says the take-over of the federal Conservative party is a disaster for working people, but they can fight back and win.

    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.

    5 min
  • Why the new fascist right is rising

    The global neo-fascist attack on unions, authoritarian government in the South Pacific, a plea by Ukrainian teachers, the LabourStart Report about union events and Woody Guthrie singing: "All You Fascists Bound to Lose."

    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.

    16 min
  • AFL-CIO elects first woman president

    The The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which has thousands of affiliated Canadian members, has elected Liz Shuler as president. AFL-CIO is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

    Also - the first unionist to lead the ILO retires.

    Plus, the LabourStart Report about union events and free-style union rappin'.

    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.

    16 min
  • Saving the world's 160 million child labourers

    A special report from the 5th International Conference for the Elimination of Child Labour. Plus the LabourStart report about union events around the world. And singing: 'Equality for You and Me.'

    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.

    16 min
  • 2022's Moose Hide Day to protect women

    May 12 is 2022's Moose Hide Day - a day organized to activate people against the injustices and violence faced by women in Canada, particularly Indigenous women. A Unifor webinar hosted by the union's Indigenous Liaison, Gina Smoke.

    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.

    25 min
  • Scott Doherty's run for Unifor President

    Marc Bélanger reports: Scott Doherty is running for Unifor's presidency.

    Doherty, Unifor's Executive Assistant to the National President, is talking to his union's members all across the country about their struggles for better wages and working conditions.

    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.

    5 min
  • How CUPE started International Health and Safety Day

    A little CUPE Health and Safety committee started April 28 - the International Day of Mourning which is now celebrated by more than 60 countries. Plus a call for better Health and Safety provisions in Canada by the National Secretary-Treasurer of Unifor, Lana Payne.

    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.

    6 min
  • Labour's 2022 Nobel Prize awarded

    An exiled labour leader and his union have been awarded the 2022 Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. The plight of informal workers in the Philippines. The LabourStart Report about union events. And singing: 'We Belong to the Union."

    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.

    16 min
  • Lana Payne runs for Unifor president

    The National Secretary-Treasurer of Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union, has announced her candidacy for the presidency of the union. She joins Scott Doherty, Executive Assistant to the National President and Dave Cassidy, the president of Unifor Local 444 in Windsor, Ontario.

    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.

    9 min

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RadioLabour, the long running Canadian-based international labour news program, partners with rabble to produce a weekly Canadian edition. The program is available every Friday afternoon…

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