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Podcasting since 2024 • 53 episodes

LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

Latest Episodes

South Korea: Interview with Chanyoung Heo, Kuehne+Nagel Korea Labour Union

Chanyoung is leader of a small union in Korea that represents workers at Kuehne+Nagel, a German-owned logistics company. For 20 years, industrial relations at the company were good. Now they aren't. What happened? Why di...

September 10, 2026 • 16:27

Interview with Sean Sweeney, coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)

Sean Sweeney is the founder and coordinator of a global network of trade unionists who are trying change the way we deal with the global climate crisis. Instead of failed neo-liberal solutions, TUED is pushing for 'public pathways' to con...

September 03, 2026 • 8:42

Kenya: Interview with Joseph Ndiritu Karobia, General Secretary of the Public Transport Operators Union (PUTON)

Joe's union has managed to win a couple of legal battles ensuring that drivers working in Kenya's informal sector have rights. But employers are resisting and the struggle is not yet won. Joe tells us about some of the challenges that his...

September 02, 2026 • 11:26

Turkey: Interview with Kivanc Eliacik

According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Turkey is one of the worst countries in the world for workers' rights. Union leaders continue to be arrested and jailed. But recently, a number have been released, thanks in ...

August 14, 2026 • 9:02

Australia: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions

The lowest gender pay gap ever recorded. Food delivery workers winning new workplace protections and a new minimum hourly rate of pay, above the minimum wage. Workers winning a 'right to disconnect' -- meaning that their employers c...

August 14, 2026 • 9:51