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- Apr 16, 202610 min
"The stronger the union, the cooler the workplace." Interview with union educator Stirling Smith
The International Labour Organisation estimate that 70% of the world's workforce is now vulnerable to extreme heat. How is this affecting workers? What can unions do? We interviewed Stirling Smith, a trade union educator who has worked in many countries, and especially south Asia. He lived in India for four years where he worked for the ILO. He is active now in the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre. Support the show
- Feb 13, 202618 min
International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine
In the last three weeks, two high-level delegations of trade union leaders from around the world were blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank). The general secretaries of two global union federations -- Ambet Yuson from Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) and David Edwards from the Education International (EI) -- were there, leading the delegations. BWI and EI's affiliated unions have a total of 45,000,000 members and...
- Jan 22, 20266 min
USA: Interview with Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation AFL-CIO
Tomorrow (23 January) will see trade unionists and other citizens of Minneapolis shutting the city down in protest at the actions of Donald Trump's ICE thugs. People won't go to work, they won't shop, their kids won't go to school. Chelsie will be in the thick of it and in this short interview we talked about what's happening in Minneapolis, the role of the unions and her thoughts on how people elsewhere in the world might show their solidarity. It's an inspiring story and d...
- Jan 22, 202610 min
Global: Interview with Pamela Morinière - International Federation of Journalists
In this short interview, we talked with Pamela, who is the IFJ's head of communications, about the IFJ's recent report on the number of journalists killed around the world in 2025 (128 that we know about). We discussed why this number keeps going up, the role of ongoing wars, the problem of impunity, what the IFJ and its affiliated unions are doing and what ordinary people around the world can do. Here are some useful links: IFJ safety fundIFJ UN Convention Q and AIFJ web siteSupp...
- Dec 17, 20250 min
60 seconds on ... Christmas shopping
With the run-up to Christmas, retail workers are preparing to face a tsunami of abuse and even violence. Unions representing shop workers in dozens of countries where Christmas is celebrated are campaigning to protect workers from over-stressed shoppers. Here's our take on Christmas shopping - and a very merry and kind Christmas from all of us at LabourStart! Support the show
- Dec 8, 20250 min
60 seconds on ... Lee Cheuk-yan, jailed leader of Hong Kong's trade union movement
"60 seconds on ..." is a new podcast series hosted by LabourStart and aims to provide the international trade union movement with bite-size nuggets of information about important campaigns and news. In today's episode, we focus on Lee Cheuk-yan, the jailed leader of the Hong Kong Trade Union Confederation, whose trial starts next month. To learn more about the International Trade Union Confederation's campaign in solidarity with Lee, click here. Support the show
- Dec 5, 202511 min
USA: Professor Yiran Zhang on care work
Professor Yiran Zhang is a prominent emerging voice in the field of labor and employment law, focusing on how care work is governed at the complicated intersection of informal labor markets, the welfare state, and the household. At Cornell’s ILR School, where she is also an Associate Faculty Member at Cornell Law School, she examines the rapidly shifting terrain of U.S. care-subsidy programs and what these changes mean for workers, families, and the law. Her scholarship, which spans top jour...
- Nov 29, 202510 min
Netherlands: Union leader Pawel Rudzki, unfairly dismissed for his activism
Pawel Rudzki has not worked for the Albert Heijn supermarket chain for some two months now. An exemplary worker, never late, with a spotless record, he was bullied and lied about, given warnings he could not reply to -- and then summarily sacked. His union, the FNV, together with UNI Global Union, has been campaigning for his reinstatement. It's the subject of a major campaign on LabourStart - click here to learn more and show your support. In this interview, Pawel tells his story...
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About LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
LabourStart is the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. Founded in 1998, we are the web's best source of trade union news, uploaded by our volunteers in dozens of languages. Our online campaigns, offered free of charge to trade unions, often help win victories for workers around the world. And from time to time, we hold Global Solidarity Conferences in different cities. Please visit our website at https://www.labourstart.org and support with a donation (if you can) here: https://www.labourstart.org/pico/?en/donate. THANK YOU!
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