Rank & File Radio - Prairie Edition

Dan Darrah joins the show to talk about the 2020 Newfoundland grocery strike and how grocery jobs went from good to bad in the 1980s and 1990s.

Check out the two-part series Grocery's Long War:

https://canadiandimension.com/series/grocerys-long-war

Interview with historian Scott Price about 1987 Westfair strike

https://www.rankandfile.ca/fighting-for-survival-manitobas-1987-westfair-strike/

A wide-ranging conversation with Emily Leedham touching on the Stella's Café strike in Winnipeg, the Saskatchewan election and corporate money, and the tactics of union-busting. Guest host: Doug Nesbitt, editor of Rankandfile.ca.

Labour lawyer Joshua Mandryk provides a short overview of Jason Kenney's Bill 32: The Restoring Balance in Alberta's Workplaces Act

Follow Joshua at Twitter.com/JMandryk

Union picketing and political campaigning curbed under proposed Alberta bill | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-bill-32-workplace-unions-1.5640952

Alberta labour needs the UCP's union busting bill | The Progress Report

https://www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_labour_needs_the_ucp_s_union_busting_bill

To learn more visit https://www.cncmanitoba.ca/

Bashir Mohamed and Dr. Bob Barnetson discuss the COVID-19 outbreaks in Alberta's Cargill and JBS meatpacking plants. Government representatives and health officials, including Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw told Cargill workers their plant was safe, citing an OH&S inspection. Two days later, a worker died and the plant shut down April 20.

Meanwhile some JBS workers have taken job action, reducing the plant's operating capacity. JBS remains open.

Meatpacking Plant Outbreaks are a Disaster and Dr. Hinshaw Shares Responsibility

https://www.theprogressreport.ca/opinion_meatpacking_plant_outbreaks_are_a_disaster_and_dr_hinshaw_shares_responsibility

Cargill, Covid and the Failure of Alberta OH&S Policy

https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/cargill_covid_and_the_failure_of_alberta_ohs_policy

Full Cargill Townhall Transcript

https://www.rankandfile.ca/cargill-workers-town-hall/

Timeline: What we know about the Cargill outbreak

https://www.theprogressreport.ca/timeline_what_we_know_about_the_cargill_outbreak

UFCW 401 President Thomas Hesse discusses the COVID-19 outbreak in the Cargill meatpacking plant, as well as steps needed to protect food workers in grocery stores.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cargill-meat-plant-union-covid-19-1.5530836

Also, the Migrants Right Network hosts a press conference with demands from undocumented workers to access healthcare and federal income supports.

MigrantRights.ca

https://www.rankandfile.ca/undocumented-cerb-status/

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Deb Hopkins discusses an open letter calling for the release of Saskatchewan inmates to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Open Letter to Saskatchewan Minister of Corrections and Policing Christine Tell

https://www.facebook.com/glen.luther.3/posts/10156955075456053

Sean Tucker, OH&S researcher at the University of Regina, discusses whether the Co-op Refinery's scab camp's health and safety response to limit COVID-19 spread is effective.

RankandFile.ca Unifor 594 lockout video

https://www.facebook.com/rankandfile.ca/posts/3125681507476406

SHA Report on the Co-op Refinery Scab Camp

https://www.facebook.com/AndrewStevensWard3/posts/2928799830566646

Deb Hopkins discusses an open letter calling for the release of Saskatchewan inmates to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Open Letter to Saskatchewan Minister of Corrections and Policing Christine Tell

https://www.facebook.com/glen.luther.3/posts/10156955075456053

Sean Tucker, OH&S researcher at the University of Regina, discusses whether the Co-op Refinery's scab camp's health and safety response to limit COVID-19 spread is effective.

RankandFile.ca Unifor 594 lockout video

https://www.facebook.com/rankandfile.ca/posts/3125681507476406

SHA Report on the Co-op Refinery Scab Camp

https://www.facebook.com/AndrewStevensWard3/posts/2928799830566646

Debbie Boissonneault, President of CUPE 204, discusses the state of Manitoba's health care system & response to COVID-19.

https://www.cupe204.ca/who_are_manitoba_s_health_care_heroes

Jennifer Whiteside, secretary-treasurer of British Columbia's Hospital Employees Union, discusses the BC gov'ts positive move to mend the fractured long-term care system.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/01/Long-Term-Care-Worker-Pay-Boosted/

Rory Gill, President of CUPE Alberta, discusses Jason Kenney's massive layoff of twenty-five thousand educational assistant and support staff. https://jobkillerkenney.ca/kenneys-cuts/

Debbie Boissonneault, President of CUPE 204, discusses the state of Manitoba's health care system & response to COVID-19.

https://www.cupe204.ca/who_are_manitoba_s_health_care_heroes

Jennifer Whiteside, secretary-treasurer of British Columbia's Hospital Employees Union, discusses the BC gov'ts positive move to mend the fractured long-term care system.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/01/Long-Term-Care-Worker-Pay-Boosted/

Rory Gill, President of CUPE Alberta, discusses Jason Kenney's massive layoff of twenty-five thousand educational assistant and support staff. https://jobkillerkenney.ca/kenneys-cuts/