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RadioLabourCanada
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 exclusively on rabble.ca.
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CUPE cries for an end to fascism in federal government
CUPE calls for fight against right-wing federal government and fascism at its national convention in Toronto. The LabourStart Report about union event...
Fighting for children's education in Ontario
Ontario's Ford government is attacking school trustees and school board unions. An interview with the president of CUPE's Ontario Council of School Bo...
What is a far-leftist in the US?
The Republican party says anybody who doesn't agree with its politics is a far-left radical. Thom Hartmann, the host of a long-running radio programme...
How Canada can fight the Trump economic attacks
An Elbows UP Summit attended by progressive economists and policy analysts was held September 15, 2025 to plan Canada's response to the Trump attacks....
The labour movement on the International Day for Democracy
September 15 is the International Day for Democracy. The labour movement has been conducting a global campaign "For Democracy That Delivers." A RadioL...
Canadian unions started Labour Day
Unions in the US followed the example of Canadian unions to celebrate Labour Day. An interview with CLC president Bea Bruske. The LabourStart Report a...
Canada's nurses will say no!
Canada's nurses are saying yes to better health care but no to
under-staffing, violence against their co-workers and more. The president of the...
No! to exporting jobs south
Unifor has called for the use of existing legislation to penalize
corporations that relocate jobs to the US. Plus the LabourStart report about...
What? No federal Labour Minister?
While Canada negotiates new trade relations around the world Mark Carney did not include a Labour Minister in his cabinet. A RadioLabour interview wit...
Work overload is destroying the physical and mental health of workers.
The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) wants the province's Workers' Compensation Board to improve its practices before more people suffer. An interv...
Who owns a pension surplus? The workers or the employer?
Because of higher interest rates and market activities there has been a growth in pensions surpluses. The Ontario Federation of Labour held a webinar...
Why Flower Moon time is important to Indigenous cultures
Flower Moon (Waawaaskone Giizis) is a sacred time in many Indigenous cultures that honours the return of vibrant blooms and the healing energy of natu...
Unions say 'No!' to the notwithstanding clause
CUPE has joined with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Labour Congress and other labour organizations to demand an end to the use...
The Telus workers in Turkey who screen child abuse TikTok videos
Telus Digital workers in Turkey spend eight hours a day monitoring disgusting TikTok videos. They are asking for mental health services. The LabourSta...
American scholars moving to Canada, eh?
The turmoil in the United States is encouraging US scholars to think about moving to Canada. What would that mean to them and scholars in Canada? An i...
Why Ontario's special needs students need to be treated specially
The Ontario government has been underfunding the education of special needs students and that affects all students. The Elementary Teachers' Federatio...
BC LifeLabs workers strike against American corporation
The 1,200 employees of the American-owned company LifeLabs in British Columbia have been conducting rotating strikes to improve their wages, working c...
Striking to teach Alberta how to treat students
Thousands of CUPE education workers in Alberta are standing up for the province's students. Many of the workers have not had a raise in ten years, wor...
Black unionists are creating spaces for themselves in the labour movement
Kevon Stewart is the director of District 6 of the United Steelworkers union. In November 2024 he was elected the international union's first Black di...
Alberta education workers fight secret anti-labour department
A secret office of the Alberta UCP government has been preventing school divisions from paying decent wages to their workers for years. The lack of ad...
Black people? What black people?
Black workers often need to fight just to be recognized in the workplace. A report from a United Steelworkers District 6 conference on the Black Exper...
Has Amazon scared off unionization?
With the closing of warehouses in Quebec Amazon is trying to stop its workers from unionizing. But Unifor's director of organizing, Justin Gniposky, s...
Ontario unions tell Ford what to do with his election
Unions in Ontario have come together to condemn Doug Ford's call of a provincial election instead of taking action. An interview with the president of...
25% tariffs, eh? So was NAFTA a mistake?
Jim Stanford, the director of the Centre for Future Work, says Trump's claims that Canada is subsidizing the US are complete nonsense but democracy is...
The United States of Fascism
How fascism is at the core of the US national project. An interview
with Jon Milton, a senior communications officer at the Canadian Centre of ...
How rail companies are breaking collective bargaining
Teamsters Canada is fighting corporations such as CN that are trying to destroy the constitutional right of workers to bargain collectively. An interv...
55,000 postal workers fight for millions of Canadian workers
Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are on strike not only for themselves but to protect the jobs of many more workers. An interview with ...
Trump attacks millions of workers in Ontario
Donald Trump has threated to impose a tariff of 25 per cent on goods from Canada. A RadioLabour interview with the president of the Ontario Federation...
Working for telework
The federal government has mandated against telework. But the Public Service Alliance of Canada is fighting back for its members - and all Canadian wo...
For-profit nursing agencies are privatizing Canada’s medical system
A report by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions has shown that there has been a sharp increase in spending on for-profit nursing agencies. Billi...
Amazon trying to Americanize Canadian labour law
When 200 Amazon workers in Laval Quebec unionized the company argued in court that signing cards to join the union was unconstitutional. No. Card-sign...
And now the resistance . . .
The United States has elected a fascist president with unchecked powers. What the effect on Canada will be. An interview with the president of Unifor,...
Alberta: Power to the people!
Albertan consumers and businesses have overpaid $24 billion in electricity costs since the sector was de-regulated in 2001. The Alberta Federation of...
Artificial vs worker Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is changing workplaces with some benefits and many risks. The Canadian Union of Public Employees has produced an AI guide for ...
Steelworkers will fight Trump's terrible tariffs
If Donald Trump is re-elected as US president he may once again impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. A RadioLabour interview with USW Distri...
How US unions are fighting the fascist attack
In this, the second in a two part series the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is described. A RadioLabour interview with Harris Freeman, a prof...
Canada’s 300,000 aerospace workers need help
Unifor - Canada’s largest private sector union – has developed a national industrial strategy for the country’s aerospace sector. Plus: the LabourStar...
The fascist attack on US unions
The Republican policy document 'Project 2025' calls for an end to public service unions, mass deportation of immigrant workers and other attacks on la...
The attack on unionists in Hong Kong
After the 2020 elections in Hong Kong, 47 pro-democracy activists were arrested. Two weeks ago fourteen activists who pleaded guilty were convicted. C...
Canada joins Global Coalition for Social Justice
Labour Leaders are meeting at the conference of the International Labour Organization in Geneva to discuss issues such as social justice, decent work...