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The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre was started over 25 years ago by an ambitious and dynamic group of labour historians, artists, and union and community activists who saw a need for a community museum that could celebrate the history of workers and labour. Over the years, we have expanded our vision of work to include both paid and unpaid work, and to be as inclusive as possible of the experiences and histories of the least visible work and workers. WAHC is housed in the heritage-listed Custom House building. In 1995, after intense work by a volunteer board of directors, the (Ontario) Workers Arts and Heritage Centre purchased the historic Custom House in the north end of Hamilton. The building stood deserted until WAHC was able to purchase it. Over $1.5 million went into the restoration of this majestic historic building. As a community museum and arts centre, we offer a diverse array of exhibitions, workshops, educational programs, digital projects, and community events that explore perspectives in labour history, social justice, and contemporary labour issues. WAHC also has a permanent collection of artifacts that relate to labour history and workers’ experiences. We bring together members of our community, unions, local arts organizations, workers’ groups, and artists to share and celebrate the stories of working people. Ours our collaborative ventures. --Website description ("About us," 2023-09-22)

In this episode of Spring Radio, Spring member Dave Bush sits down with labour journalist Emily Leedham to reflect on workers’ struggles in Canada in 2023, and the state of labour journalism. --Introduction

Gabriela Calugay-Casuga and CUPE Ontario secretary-treasurer Yolanda McClean talk about gender and racial equity for Canada’s labour movement.

With support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Drs. Shelagh Campbell and Andrew Stevens at the University of Regina, are facilitating a webinar and podcast series that focuses on the state of work and employment in Western Canada. This is an opportunity for students and established scholars to present their research on-line through a variety of formats, such as panel discussions, webinars, and podcasts. [Themes include the changing dimensions of workplace, changing labour markets and public policy, and institutional responses to crisis.] --Website description [Viewed 2021-07-19]

The Monitor is CCPA's national magazine, published six times per year. It covers issues of social, climate and economic justice, and also prominently highlights CCPA's research and analysis. --Website

Website of CBC Archives: various telecasts on labour & unions

Muddied Water is a podcast about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike that explores our desire to find heroes in an often unclear past. In a "fight for fair" that brought strikers out in the thousands, you'll meet characters like Helen Armstrong and AJ Andrews, but if you think you know on which side of history they fall, think again. Winnipeg in 1919 is a city divided but when the two sides collide it's difficult to know who's right and who's wrong, and if faced with similar conditions if we'd make the same choices today. --Trailer. Series broadcast June-July 2019. Contents: Wild woman of the West (12:02) -- Our friends of the rat-hole persuasion (16:03) -- Milk and bread (17:26) -- The south side of the tracks (18:34) -- The slave pact (11:48) -- Bloody Saturday (15:15).

Introduces "Epilogue," a biweekly podcast from Montreal's Jewish Public Library. In episode 1, hosts Rabbi Avi Finegold and archivist Jessica Zimmerman explore a frayed copy of bilingual periodical, "The Organizer," published in the 1920's by the International Ladies Garment Makers Union, and discuss Léa Roback, the influential Canadian organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist.

Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer-run political collective comprising people from diverse walks of life, including migrant workers, labour organizers, educators, researchers, students and racialized youth based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles. J4MW strives to promote the rights of migrant farm workers (participating in agricultural streams of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, including the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program) and farm workers without a formal immigration status. Promoting workers’ rights entails creating for spaces where workers themselves can organize and voice their concerns without losing their work or being repatriated. The collective starts with workers’ knowledge and concerns and fight for change collectively, basing our work on fighting racism, sexism and capitalism. We see ourselves as a movement of workers and allies and strive to support organizing that is led and directed by workers in the fields, farms and greenhouses. --Website description

Sow and Grow is a podcast by young farmers exploring the forces that shape Canadian agriculture and the solutions needed to build a more just and ecologically sustainable food system. Throughout the eight episode arc series, host Maddie Marmor, together with producers and co-hosts Stuart Oke and Aliyah Fraser, will break down how the climate crisis and farm crisis interact, inform, and influence one another. The team will take their shared, lived experience of farming during a time of crisis into the centre of many of the conversations with guests, including activists, policy advocates and of course other farmers, farmworkers seed keepers and food providers as they suss out how to respond to both crisis’s with care, responsibility and food sovereignty informed action. Farmers are making real decisions to mitigate, adapt and transform in this climate of crisis, and they need our support and our cheer as they struggle, often everyday, to do so. This series is for them. --Website description

A new Canadian labour history storytelling podcast, produced by volunteers and staff of the BC Labour Heritage Centre on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories. Hosted by labour reporter and author Rod Mickleburgh. --Website description.

Walmart is notorious for its anti-union practices, pouring millions of dollars into union-busting campaigns every year. But this didn’t stop Angela Drew Kimelman, an Organizer at Unifor, from helping unionize over 800 workers at a Walmart warehouse in Mississauga, Ontario. In our first episode of Activists Make History, a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal, Kimelman shares [with host Peggy Nash] the concerns of the warehouse workers and the dangerous conditions they faced. The Mississauga warehouse union drive has shown to be a catalyst for labour organizing in warehouses across the country, with momentum swinging towards the working-class. --Website description

In this episode of Spring Radio, we share excerpts from "Red October" where Spring members discuss why fighting transphobia, homophobia, racism, and sexism is inherently a workers’ issue and why socialists need to build anti-oppressive, multi-racial working class movements. --Introduction

Rabble editor Nick Seebruch sits down with CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn to discuss the recent momentum in the labour movement in Canada. Podcast: September 29, 2023.

Enter one of the most bitter labour disputes in Canadian history. The plan to extract the last gold from a once booming mine in Canada’s North pits a shrewd new president against an increasingly agitated workforce in a clash that divides a city, and descends in to violence and murder. Host Rachel Zelniker lays bare the lingering impact and hard lessons when a conflict spirals out of control. Podcast date: September 2019.