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 in London. Daniel spoke with us about ICTUR's histo...
3 Feb 202511min
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 the country's largest trade unions. Stephanie Ros...
30 Jan 202520min
Interview with Tamar Ansiani, one of the striking workers at Evolution Gaming, Georgia
This week we interviewed Tamar Ansiani, who in addition to being a striker (one of over 4,000) at the Swedish-owned Evolution Gaming in Georgia, is also a vice president of LABOR, a Georgian trade uni...
13 Nov 20248min
Interview with Sultana Hossain from the Amazon Labor Union in the USA
"We were dying," says Sultana Hossain, describing the conditions that led thousands of Amazon employees in New York City to begin organising into a trade union. Initially, their union was independent...
19 Okt 202412min
Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan)
China Steel Express (CSE), the most profitable subsidiary of Taiwan's largest state-owned enterprise, China Steel Corporation (CSC), has long exploited Taiwanese seafarers through illegal fixed-term c...
25 Sep 20246min
The struggle for jobs and dignity at Liberty Steel
An interview with Judith Kirton-Darling, general secretary of IndustriAll Europe, about the ongoing fight of Liberty Steel workers in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in the face of catastrophic...
13 Aug 202414min
Interview with Srđan from Radnicki Glas (Workers Voice) in Serbia
This week we interviewed Srđan from Radnicki Glas (Workers Voice) in Serbia. The group is very involved with the ongoing campaign at the Yura factories in Serbia -- which is the subject of a LabourSt...
30 Jul 202414min
Interview with David Edwards, General Secretary of the Education International
We spoke with David Edwards just three weeks before the opening of the congress of the Education International, which unites trade unions of teachers and other educational professionals. The EI is on...
10 Jul 202410min
