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USA: Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau from the Solidarity Center
Shawna Bader-Blau heads up the Solidarity Center in Washington DC which has for many years been one of the great sources of support for workers aroun…
1 year, 2 months ago
Canada: Interview with Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour
The Alberta Federation of Labour and some 25 Alberta unions, representing more than 300,000 workers, recently unveiled the Solidarity Pact, a commitm…
1 year, 4 months ago
USA: Interview with Dr Debbie Goldman, author of Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age
Dr Debbie Goldman worked for 28 years at the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and is an expert on the subject of call centre workers. In this …
1 year, 4 months ago
Belarus: Interview with Luc Triangle, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Luc Triangle, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), was LabourStart's guest this week on our podcast. The ITUC r…
1 year, 5 months ago
Azerbaijan: Interview with Nilufar Mammadrzayeva
Nilufar Mammadrzayeva is an activist in İşçi Masası (Labor Desk), an alternative Confederation of Trade Unions operating in Azerbaijan. As she expla…
1 year, 5 months ago
Canada: Interview with Mark Hancock
This week, LabourStart's Pat Bulmer interviews Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees -- the largest union in the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Belarus: Interview with Liza Merliak, exiled trade unionist
LabourStart's podcast this week is - unfortunately - about Belarus, which is probably the worst place in Europe to be a trade unionist. We are now c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Turkey: Interview with Kıvanç Eliaçık, Director of International Relations Department for DISK
This week's LabourStart interview is with Kıvanç Eliaçık from DISK, one of Turkey's national trade union centres. We talked about workers' rights in…
1 year, 7 months ago
Interview with Daniel Blackburn from the International Centre for Trade Union Rights
This week's LabourStart podcast is a short interview with Daniel Blackburn, who runs the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR), based i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Canada: Interview with Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage
The LabourStart Podcast this week -- our first in 2025 -- is an interview with two Canadian writers who've written an important new book about one of…
1 year, 7 months ago