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[audio:https://www.rankandfile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RFR_Aug1_1730.mp3|titles=August 1 2012 episode] Click here to download Following our weekly labour news update, RFR interviews Kendra Coulter, a professor of labour studies at Brock University, who is researching retail work and retail workers’ political action. She recently launched the website Revolutionizing Retail to encourage discussion about strategies for making retail jobs into better jobs Continue readingAugust 1 episode
Coming up on this week’s show, Rank and File Radio interviews Kendra Coulter on the growing retail sector in Canada and the struggle of retail workers for rights and labour representation. We also discuss the recent Target takeover of 220+ Zellers stores and the closure by the Hudson’s Bay Company of their remaining 64 Zellers Continue readingRevolutionizing Retail
[audio:https://www.rankandfile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RFR_July25_1730.mp3|titles=July 25 2012 episode] Click here to download Following our weekly labour news update, we discuss the labour reforms being brought forward in Saskatchewan by Premier Brad Wall’s government that has been in power since 2007. We also examine the legal challenges confronting the government’s reforms as well as its similarities and differences with the Continue readingJuly 25 episode
Newfoundland wildcat strike | Chicago teachers | Ontario teachers | B.C. teachers | Big Three Automakers and the CAW | Striking Spanish coal miners | Payroll earnings in Canada, April 2012 | Scaffolding deaths & charges| Construction deaths
After a month-long summer hiatus, Rank and File Radio is returning to air this week with new episodes, new interviews and more analysis you definitely won’t find in the mainstream media. What’s new? RFR welcomes John Rose as the new regular co-host of the show. Andrew has moved to Regina and will continue to contribute Continue readingRFR retakes the airwaves!
Jason Kenney, at a press conference in Calgary, July 4, 2012 source: http://www.therecord.com/print/article/755089
By Roger Annis June 28 2012 – The BC Teachers Federation has reached an agreement with the BC government for a new collective agreement to cover the two years beginning July 2011. The agreement fails to give teachers any progress on the two key items they were fighting to obtain, namely, a salary increase and Continue readingBC teachers reach two-year agreement with government, key issues unresolved
Followers of RFR are encouraged to read Roger Annis’ latest on the Quebec student strike published at Rabble.ca. Roger, who was featured on RFR’s May 16 and May 23 episodes, unpacks various aspects of the student strike, including the important statement by student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois who argues that the student strike has hit its Continue readingOrganized labour and the Quebec student strike
[audio:https://www.rankandfile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/RFR_Jun20_17301.mp3|titles=June 20 2012 episode] Click here to download This show features an interview with David Bush, a community and labour activist based primarily on the East Coast. David is currently finishing his Master’s in Labour Studies at McMaster University. His blog will be exploring the theoretical and strategic debates facing left-wing activists who are trying Continue readingRFR: June 20 episode
[audio:https://www.rankandfile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/RFR_June13.mp3|titles=June 13 2012 episode] Click here to download MP3 On this week’s show we interview Hans Rollman, a labour activist from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, discussing the strike as labour’s chief tactic, as well as the state of the Newfoundland and Labrador labour movement. Rollman is author of “The End of the Strike?” in Continue readingRFR: June 13 episode
This article was written by David Bush and originally published at Rabble.ca “David Bush is a community and labour activist based primarily on the East Coast. Currently he is finishing his Master’s in Labour Studies at McMaster University. His blog will be exploring the theoretical and strategic debates facing left-wing activists who are trying to Continue readingBuilding the power to win: learning from last year’s lockout at Canada Post