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Following Donald Trump’s accusations about the flow of migrants and fentanyl from Canada into the United States, the government of Canada announced a multitude of changes to border control and security costed at approximately $1.3 billion dollars.

This past November, several Starbucks locations in Ontario unionized with the United Steelworkers. On this episode, we chat with Jaymi, a Starbucks employee who has been involved in this organizing drive.

Dr. Linda Duxbury, a professor of management at Carleton University and a seasoned expert on work/life balance and remote work sat down with us to talk about the future of remote work in Canada.

Ever wondered what other union leaders are doing to engage with their local membership? We lead a discussion with four USJE local leaders from across Canada about their best practices for membership engagement.

USJE’s National Public Safety Awards recognize and celebrate the outstanding work of our members across the country. In this episode, we talk to two Award recipients from the 2024 Awards, Una Gair and Pierre-Luc Gilbert, about why they were chosen and what the Awards mean to them.

In this episode, we get to pick renowned economist Jim Stanford’s brain about the state of the Canadian economy, what can be learned from other countries, and how unions fit in nationally and internationally. Switching to a local, community lens, we then chat with Antonio Trujillo Villon of Turning Leaf Support Services, a Winnipeg-based organization that provides support to people living with mental illness and intellectual challenges, about how unions can help foster change at home.

We were delighted to sit down with PSAC’s newly elected executive leadership team–National President, Sharon DeSousa and National Executive Vice-President, Alex Silas–and chat about telework, bargaining, breaking barriers and more. This episode was recorded on June 14, 2024.

In celebration of Pride season, we talked to Larry Rousseau, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, and USJE RVP Shauna Ward about equity, equality and diversity in the Labour movement.

This episode focuses on the rise of labour disputes happening across Canada.