Kenya: Interview with Joseph Ndiritu Karobia, General Secretary of the Public Transport Operators Union (PUTON)

Kenya: Interview with Joseph Ndiritu Karobia, General Secretary of the Public Transport Operators Union (PUTON)

Joe's union has managed to win a couple of legal battles ensuring that drivers working in Kenya's informal sector have rights. But employers are resisting and the struggle is not yet won. Joe tells us about some of the challenges that his members face including 16 hour work days -- and regular bribes to the police. Learn more about workers' struggles in Kenya here. Support the show

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South Korea: Interview with Chanyoung Heo, Kuehne+Nagel Korea Labour Union

South Korea: Interview with Chanyoung Heo, Kuehne+Nagel Korea Labour Union

Chanyoung is leader of a small union in Korea that represents workers at Kuehne+Nagel, a German-owned logistics company. For 20 years, industrial relations at the company were good. Now they aren't....

10 Sep 16min

Interview with Sean Sweeney, coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)

Interview with Sean Sweeney, coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)

Sean Sweeney is the founder and coordinator of a global network of trade unionists who are trying change the way we deal with the global climate crisis. Instead of failed neo-liberal solutions, TUED ...

3 Sep 8min

Turkey: Interview with Kivanc Eliacik

Turkey: Interview with Kivanc Eliacik

According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Turkey is one of the worst countries in the world for workers' rights. Union leaders continue to be arrested and jailed. But recently, a num...

14 Aug 9min

Australia: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions

Australia: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions

The lowest gender pay gap ever recorded. Food delivery workers winning new workplace protections and a new minimum hourly rate of pay, above the minimum wage. Workers winning a 'right to disconnect'...

14 Aug 9min

Taiwan: Interview with Lennon Wang, from the Taidoc Technology Labor Union (TTLU).

Taiwan: Interview with Lennon Wang, from the Taidoc Technology Labor Union (TTLU).

Filipino women migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology Corporation, a medical equipment company based in Taiwan, R.O.C., have faced discrimination, forced labour conditions and union busting. In response...

3 Aug 8min

"The stronger the union, the cooler the workplace." Interview with union educator Stirling Smith

"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...

16 Apr 10min

International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine

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). Th...

13 Feb 18min

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