Interview

Interview | September 27, 2022

Education workers fighting back: Interview with Laura Walton

CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario. They are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. Currently members are in the midst of a strike vote. Spring recently spoke with Laura Walton, the President of OSBCU – CSCSO, about how education workers are organizing to fight for decent wages and a fair contract.

Interview | September 26, 2022

Migrant justice challenges ‘precarity at every level’

September 18 marked an important day for migrants across the country. Migrants and supporters alike are demanding regularization and permanent residency status for all. Some…

Interview | September 20, 2022

Labour and the Global Climate Strike: An interview with Nigel Barriffe

For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island have cared for and protected the land and water we all rely on. This is especially…

Interview | September 12, 2022

Canada’s exploitation of migrant student workers

Labour migration plays a crucial role in upholding global capitalism. Immigration systems, including the one in Canada, are exploitative and discriminatory by design. Canada’s international…

Interview | July 7, 2022

Workers’ rights and the fight for climate justice

Low-wage workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they were the first to lose their jobs and most likely to get COVID. A new…

Interview | June 22, 2022

The Halifax Workers’ Action Centre

The Spring podcast spoke with Lisa Cameron, an organizer with the Halifax Workers’ Action Centre, about the issues workers face in Nova Scotia, from wage…

Interview | June 21, 2022

Building a united front for Indigenous sovereignty

“Whenever we assert our collective rights to the Canadian state, our sovereignty seems to get lost in the public debate. Sovereignty means we were here for thousands of years before colonization, and any legitimate claim to reconciliation must account for that question of our relationship to the Land. ”

Interview | June 3, 2022