"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
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
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...
22 Jan 6min
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 camp...
17 Dec 202556s
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. ...
8 Dec 202559s
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 welfa...
5 Dec 202511min
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 co...
29 Nov 202510min
