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Radio — Oral histories, labour and feminism in Manitoba

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309567709-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-46-jan-82014-oral-histories-labour-and-feminism-in-manitoba.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Price talks about his work with the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg and with Local 832 of the United Food and Commercial Workers unearthing histories of working-class … Continue reading

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Radio — Nursing labour: The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309550239-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-24-aug-72013-nursing-labour-the-saskatchewan-union-of-nurses.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Rosalee Longmoore talks about her 15 years as the president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN). The work of nurses is an absolutely essential yet often underappreciated backbone to the … Continue reading

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Talking Radical Radio: Towards a New Model of Worker Organizing

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Mostafa Henaway talks about his years of work with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. Though it is not yet as intense as in the United States, and there have been … Continue reading

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Interview Excerpt from William Paterson

The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with William Paterson, a trade unionist in Calgary, Alberta, in which he talks a bit about his early years in England and then in Calgary: WP: At the age of … Continue reading

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William Paterson

William Paterson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1926, but spent most of the first 20 years of his life in London, England. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1949. He has been a trade unionist since the age … Continue reading

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