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 around the world trying create and sustain independent, ...
25 Jun 202521min
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 commitment to collective defence against any attack on wor...
14 Mai 202524min
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 short interview we discussed her new book, Disconne...
22 Apr 202513min
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 represents around 200 million workers in 169 countri...
9 Apr 20258min
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 explained to us, "Right now, four of our comrades are fa...
2 Apr 202510min
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 country. Mark was asked to speak about the union'...
20 Mar 202512min
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 coming up on the 3rd anniversary of the mass arrests...
3 Mar 202512min
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 Turkey, the role played by LabourStart and global ...
11 Feb 202516min
