Full interview with Nicole Montford from NationalizeBusRoutes.ca debriefing the Sep 3 Day of Action to call for a nationalized inter-city bus service to replace Greyhound once Greyhound pulls its routes from Western Canada on October 31. This was Nicole's first time organizing an action of scale, so she reflects on event logistics & timing, inter-generational organizing & next steps for the campaign. Twitter: @NationalizeBus

Full interview with Nicole Montford from NationalizeBusRoutes.ca debriefing the Sep 3 Day of Action to call for a nationalized inter-city bus service to replace Greyhound once Greyhound pulls its routes from Western Canada on October 31. This was Nicole's first time organizing an action of scale, so she reflects on event logistics & timing, inter-generational organizing & next steps for the campaign. Twitter: @NationalizeBus

First, a follow up with Nicole Montford, a first time organizer in Calgary, Alberta, who recently organized a day of action to support a nationalized inter-city bus service to replace Greyhound. We’ll talk about her experience organizing and what she learned in the process. You can check out the campaign at www.NationalizeBusRoutes.ca and on Twitter @NationalizeBus .

An extended interview with Nicole will be uploaded shortly.

Then we’ll talk to Scott Price who is a labour historian with UFCW 832 here in Manitoba about the importance of working people documenting their own history and struggles, and how unions and grassroots movements can incorporate oral history and knowledge sharing as a key component of their organizing.

http://oralhistorycentre.ca/

http://www.oralhistorycentre.ca/projects/celebrating-our-past-preparing-our-future-ufcw-local-832-project

News links:

http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/

https://www.620ckrm.com/2018/09/07/a-closer-look-larry-hubich/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/labour-day-winnipeg-march-1.4809202

First, a follow up with Nicole Montford, a first time organizer in Calgary, Alberta, who recently organized a day of action to support a nationalized inter-city bus service to replace Greyhound. We’ll talk about her experience organizing and what she learned in the process. You can check out the campaign at www.NationalizeBusRoutes.ca and on Twitter @NationalizeBus .

An extended interview with Nicole will be uploaded shortly.

Then we’ll talk to Scott Price who is a labour historian with UFCW 832 here in Manitoba about the importance of working people documenting their own history and struggles, and how unions and grassroots movements can incorporate oral history and knowledge sharing as a key component of their organizing.

http://oralhistorycentre.ca/

http://www.oralhistorycentre.ca/projects/celebrating-our-past-preparing-our-future-ufcw-local-832-project

News links:

http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/

https://www.620ckrm.com/2018/09/07/a-closer-look-larry-hubich/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/labour-day-winnipeg-march-1.4809202

Sunday, September 2, 2018: Kate Jacobson, host and producer of the Alberta Advantage podcast, talks austerity budgets and their impact on public sector union struggles across the Prairies.

Links:

Alberta

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/graham-thomson-labour-peace-as-another-big-tentative-deal-is-struck-with-public-sector-workers

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/graham-thomson-its-not-all-quiet-on-the-labour-front-for-albertas-46000-teachers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-vanguard-association-house-tipping-daniel-huber-1.4794087

Saskatchewan:

http://rankandfile.ca/saskatchewans-2017-austerity-budget/

https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/possible-strike-looms-as-tension-grows-between-labour-and-province

https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/labour-relations-board-dismisses-union-request-for-legal-aid-injunction

Manitoba:

https://policyfix.ca/2017/02/09/doing-austerity-in-saskatechewan-and-manitoba/

http://rankandfile.ca/manitoba-tories-ready-legislative-assault-on-labour/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/topic/Tag/2017%20Manitoba%20health%20care%20cuts%20and%20changes

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/allegations-of-racism-sexual-harassment-at-manitoba-hydro-site-report

Sunday, September 2, 2018: Kate Jacobson, host and producer of the Alberta Advantage podcast, talks austerity budgets and their impact on public sector union struggles across the Prairies.

Links:

Alberta

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/graham-thomson-labour-peace-as-another-big-tentative-deal-is-struck-with-public-sector-workers

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/graham-thomson-its-not-all-quiet-on-the-labour-front-for-albertas-46000-teachers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-vanguard-association-house-tipping-daniel-huber-1.4794087

Saskatchewan:

http://rankandfile.ca/saskatchewans-2017-austerity-budget/

https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/possible-strike-looms-as-tension-grows-between-labour-and-province

https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/labour-relations-board-dismisses-union-request-for-legal-aid-injunction

Manitoba:

https://policyfix.ca/2017/02/09/doing-austerity-in-saskatechewan-and-manitoba/

http://rankandfile.ca/manitoba-tories-ready-legislative-assault-on-labour/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/topic/Tag/2017%20Manitoba%20health%20care%20cuts%20and%20changes

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/allegations-of-racism-sexual-harassment-at-manitoba-hydro-site-report

This week, the Union of Canadian Transport Employees has called for the government to buy back the Canadian Wheat Board from the Saudi-U.S. joint venture, Global Grain Group. The Harper government sold 50.1% of the CWB to the joint venture, which is now known as G3 Canada Limited. UCTE President Dave Clark highlights that grain shipments through the Port of Churchill were vital to Churchill’s livelihood. He also notes that the port itself and the Hudson Bay Railway leading up to the port were both privatized in 1997 by the federal Liberal government and sold to Denver based company OmniTrax. The privatization of the port, railway and wheat board has lead to the perfect devastating storm for Churchill.

-----------

Basia Sokal is a proud member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 856 and a letter carrier in Downtown Winnipeg. She is a Former VP and acting President of her local, and current president of the Winnipeg Labour Council. She started activism early on, working at Superstore while in high school where she became steward and worked on organizing campaigns with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832. She was born in Poland and came to Winnipeg with her family in the late 80s as political refugees.

In this episode, Sokal discusses the impact Unifor’s disaffiliation with the Canadian Labour Congress has had on local organizing in the province and on the Prairies. She also addresses the need to bridge the gap between unionized and non-unionized workers, and the challenges facing the Manitoba labour movement under the Brian Pallister’s austere, union-busting Conservative government.

This week, the Union of Canadian Transport Employees has called for the government to buy back the Canadian Wheat Board from the Saudi-U.S. joint venture, Global Grain Group. The Harper government sold 50.1% of the CWB to the joint venture, which is now known as G3 Canada Limited. UCTE President Dave Clark highlights that grain shipments through the Port of Churchill were vital to Churchill’s livelihood. He also notes that the port itself and the Hudson Bay Railway leading up to the port were both privatized in 1997 by the federal Liberal government and sold to Denver based company OmniTrax. The privatization of the port, railway and wheat board has lead to the perfect devastating storm for Churchill.

-----------

Basia Sokal is a proud member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 856 and a letter carrier in Downtown Winnipeg. She is a Former VP and acting President of her local, and current president of the Winnipeg Labour Council. She started activism early on, working at Superstore while in high school where she became steward and worked on organizing campaigns with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832. She was born in Poland and came to Winnipeg with her family in the late 80s as political refugees.

In this episode, Sokal discusses the impact Unifor’s disaffiliation with the Canadian Labour Congress has had on local organizing in the province and on the Prairies. She also addresses the need to bridge the gap between unionized and non-unionized workers, and the challenges facing the Manitoba labour movement under the Brian Pallister’s austere, union-busting Conservative government.

August 19, 2018 - This episode discusses employment across race & gender in Alberta's oilsands & organizing for climate justice & direct action.

Dr. Angele Alook is proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation and a speaker of the Cree language. She recently successfully defended her PhD in Sociology from York University. Her dissertation is entitled "Indigenous Life Courses: Racialized Gendered Life Scripts and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience." She specializes in Indigenous feminism, life course approach, Indigenous research methodologies, cultural identity, and sociology of family and work.

Angele currently works in the labour movement as a full-time researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. She is also a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Corporate Mapping Project, where she is carrying out research with Parkland Institute on Indigenous experiences in Alberta’s oil industry and its gendered impact on working families. As a Research Collaborator on the SSHRC funded Feminist Energy Futures/Just Powers project, Angele is interested in exploring traditional subsistence practices in the Indigenous community along with settler allies who are also stewards of the land in her traditional territory of Treaty 8. She is directing her research toward a just transition of Alberta’s economy and labour force and the impact climate change has on her traditional territory.

https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/angelealook

https://www.corporatemapping.ca/

https://www.justpowers.ca/

Farid Iskandar is an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton. Farid joined the climate justice movement in early 2018. In a previous life, Farid was dedicated volunteer for the Alberta NDP. Farid was born and raised in Egypt, and moved to Edmonton in 2007.

Farid was one of the seven activists who rappelled mid air from Vancouver’s Ironworker' s Memorial Bridge on July 3rd, forming a human drawbridge to block oil tankers from passing, in protest of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. They stayed there for 36 hours before they were arrested.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/07/12/opinion/how-rachel-notley-volunteer-wound-bridge-blockading-oil-tanker

https://climatejusticeedmonton.com/

August 19, 2018 - This episode discusses employment across race & gender in Alberta's oilsands & organizing for climate justice & direct action.

Dr. Angele Alook is proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation and a speaker of the Cree language. She recently successfully defended her PhD in Sociology from York University. Her dissertation is entitled "Indigenous Life Courses: Racialized Gendered Life Scripts and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience." She specializes in Indigenous feminism, life course approach, Indigenous research methodologies, cultural identity, and sociology of family and work.

Angele currently works in the labour movement as a full-time researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. She is also a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Corporate Mapping Project, where she is carrying out research with Parkland Institute on Indigenous experiences in Alberta’s oil industry and its gendered impact on working families. As a Research Collaborator on the SSHRC funded Feminist Energy Futures/Just Powers project, Angele is interested in exploring traditional subsistence practices in the Indigenous community along with settler allies who are also stewards of the land in her traditional territory of Treaty 8. She is directing her research toward a just transition of Alberta’s economy and labour force and the impact climate change has on her traditional territory.

https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/angelealook

https://www.corporatemapping.ca/

https://www.justpowers.ca/

Farid Iskandar is an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton. Farid joined the climate justice movement in early 2018. In a previous life, Farid was dedicated volunteer for the Alberta NDP. Farid was born and raised in Egypt, and moved to Edmonton in 2007.

Farid was one of the seven activists who rappelled mid air from Vancouver’s Ironworker' s Memorial Bridge on July 3rd, forming a human drawbridge to block oil tankers from passing, in protest of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. They stayed there for 36 hours before they were arrested.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/07/12/opinion/how-rachel-notley-volunteer-wound-bridge-blockading-oil-tanker

https://climatejusticeedmonton.com/