Canada

Immigrant Workers' Centre

Testimony of a Filippino migrant worker in Canada

29/10/12

29:13 minutes (26.75 MB) | 394 reads | 292 downloads | download this file

Testimony of a Filipino machinist who came to Canada through the temporary foreign worker program. During the interview, he recounts the wage discrimination and racist bullying he faced in the workplace. In addition, he speaks to his experience as a union-organizer working in a militarized free-trade zone in the Philippines and to the conditions that give rise to migration for many Filipino workers.

Integrating workers of different cultures and races into the union

31/08/12

7:02 minutes (6.45 MB) | 773 reads | 272 downloads | download this file

A RadioLabour interview with Vinay Sharma, Director Human Rights Department CAW, and Anthony Sylvester, Equality Officer with the United Federation of Danish Workers.

Working conditions for migrant workers in Canada and the U.S.

18/02/12

16:00 minutes (14.65 MB) | 1486 reads | 200 downloads | download this file

December 18 is a day of action on the rights of migrant workers, refugees and displaced people. Adriana Paz was one of organizers of an event in Vancouver to commemorate this day. She is an activist with Justicia for Migrant Workers BC. Paz recently returned from the Arizona-Mexico border where she was researching the conditions for migrant workers there.

Interview by Jane Williams for Redeye on Vancouver Cooperative Radio

Labour / Labour Conditions

Chinese immigration to Canada - a historical perspective

23/12/11

5:00 minutes (3.43 MB) | 688 reads | 213 downloads | download this file

An audio report in Chinese produced by Radio Canada International. The subject is the discovery of an ancient Chinese coin (from 1667-1671) in Canada's Yukon Territory and the immigration history of Canada.

Canada

TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS TEMPORALES EN COLUMBIA BRITANICA, EL RETO SINDICAL.

13/12/11

7:12 minutes (6.59 MB) | 909 reads | 182 downloads | download this file

En Columbia Británica los 4 mil trabajadores mexicanos que participan en el programa de trabajadores agrícolas temporales, tienen el derecho de pertenecer a un sindicato, pero es esta oportunidad misma la que ha creado problemas como nunca vistos en la historia de los 40 años de este programa. En Vancouver, Christian Sida-Valenzuela, de Radio Canadá Internacional, charló con Raúl Gatica, encargado de un centro de apoyo a trabajadores temporales.

Multiculturalism / Interculturalism

Canada

Radio Canada International on International Migrants Day

20/10/11

47:22 minutes (10.85 MB) | 491 reads | 136 downloads | download this file

Radio Canada joined the International Migrant's Day and the Radio Marathon. Carmel Kilkenny talked among others to René Plaetevoet, the man behind Radio1812.

Canada

Tam Tam - Interview avec René Plaetevoet

20/10/11

9:57 minutes (2.28 MB) | 631 reads | 157 downloads | download this file

Canada

Radio Labour

CKUT Montreal

What is Radio 1812?

Radio 1812 is an initiative launched by December 18 in 2006. It is a global event that brings together migrant groups and radios from around the world to produce, broadcast and share programmes celebrating the achievements and highlighting the concerns of migrants worldwide. Click here to download the progress report.

Click here for a list of participants in 2012

For programs in other languages than English, Spanish or French click here.

ODYSSEIA - AUDIO MAGAZINE

The November issue of Odysseia focuses on the rights of migrant domestic workers and the campaign for the ratification of ILO Convention 189. Click here to listen to it.

The pilot edition of our audio magazine is still available. It focuses on the routes migrants take and the difficulties and challenges they face when moving from one country to another.