[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
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[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
[audio:https://www.rankandfile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/RFR_June6.mp3|titles=June 6 2012] Click here to download MP3 This week’s show features an interview with George Smith, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. Mr. Smith has been widely cited in the press as a critic of the federal government’s use of back-to-work legislation in the case of Air Canada and Continue readingRFR: June 6 episode