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Your guide to online video produced by and for trade union members around the world. Part of the LabourStart network.


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Welcome to LabourStart.tv!

These are short videos produced by and for trade unions around the world. Our current archive now includes links to 693 of these. We hope you enjoy watching them. To see this list sorted by country, click here.

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01.08.2008
Global: Créer le changement - Répondre au SIDA sur le lieu de travail (vidéo) [OIT] Flash - French
France: Salariés isolés : Se syndiquer pour compter (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French

30.07.2008
Spain: Comfia TV: Convenio TIC y Prevención. Consulta finiquito [Comfia TV] YouTube - Spanish

25.07.2008
France: Maryse Dumas sur France 2 le 25 juillet (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French

23.07.2008
Cambodia: La protection de la maternité dans l’industrie textile (vidéo) [OIT] Real - French

13.07.2008
France: Doux. Résignation et incompréhension (+ vidéo) [Télégramme] Flash - French

12.07.2008
Puerto Rico/USA: Labor Imperialism, Corporate Unionism & The SEIU Convention [Labor Video Project] Flash - English
Canada: CUPE/SCFP's YouTube Channel [CUPE] YouTube - English

08.07.2008
Canada: 'Why Decriminalize Sex Work?' Part 5 [Working TV] WindowsMedia - English
Canada: 'Why Decriminalize Sex Work?' Part 4 [Working TV] WindowsMedia - English
Canada: 'Why Decriminalize Sex Work?' Part1 [Working TV] WindowsMedia - English
Canada: 'Why Decriminalize Sex Work?' Part 2 [Working TV] WindowsMedia - English

04.07.2008
Japan: Japanese Tour Guides Demand Health and Pension [General Union] YouTube - English

28.06.2008
Canada: Paul Moist offers solidarity to PSAC workers [CUPE] YouTube - English
Canada: Striking CAW Members Picket OLG At Woodbine During Queens Plate [CAW] WindowsMedia - English
Canada: Locked Out Women's Shelter Workers Win New Contract [CAW] WindowsMedia - English

27.06.2008
France: Hôpital de Carhaix : la victoire en appelle d’autres (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French

25.06.2008
France: Non au rabotage du 100% de 8 millions de malades (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French

20.06.2008
France: Salariés respectés (vidéos) [CFDT] Flash - French
Europe: Entretien avec Henry Okkersen, un syndicaliste parti à pied des Pays-Bas, arrivé à Rome le 12 juin 2008 [IBB] Flash - French
Canada: CAW Fights Closing of GM Truck Plant in Oshawa [CAW] WindowsMedia - English
Canada: CAW Manufacturing Matters Rally In Oshawa Targets Flaherty [CAW] WindowsMedia - English

19.06.2008
France: Audiovisuel public : Ambiances de la manifestation unitaire du 18 juin (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French
France: Manifestation du 17 juin : Extraits du point de presse à 14 heures (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French
Canada: Autoworkers fight back [The Real News Network] Other - English

12.06.2008
Japan: Berlitz on Strike - The Bus [Berlitz Berlitz Union Tokyo] YouTube - English
Global: Produire du chocolat sans recourir au travail des enfants: un défi à relever [OIT] Real - French
France: Bernard Thibault sur le plateau de 'C à dire ?!' (vidéo) [CGT] Flash - French

08.06.2008
Japan: Berlitz Japan Strikes Continue [Berlitz Union Tokyo] YouTube - English

05.06.2008
France: Chérèque: 'CGT et CFDT n'ont pas de dessein machiavélique' [Rue89] Flash - French

04.06.2008
Canada: Putting the Movement Back in Labour - Left Forum at the CLC COnvention [The Socialist Project] Flash - English
Canada: CAW Opens Action Centre In Brampton [CAW] WindowsMedia - English

02.06.2008
France: Jean-Claude Mailly sur LCI (vidéo) [FO] Flash - French

30.05.2008
USA: Lawsuit alleges that employees at U.S. Sugar were kept in dark by management about deal that could have enriched their retirement [NYT] Flash - English
France: Retraites, temps de travail [CGT] Flash - French

28.05.2008
France: Expression directe : Emploi des séniors (vidéo) [CFDT] Flash - French

25.05.2008
China/Global: Anita Chan: Should we establish contacts with the Chinese trade unions? [Labour Notes] Other - English



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