Dan Darrah joins the show to talk about the 2020 Newfoundland grocery strike and how grocery jobs went from good to bad in the 1980s and 1990s. Check out the two-part series Grocery's Long War: https://canadiandimension.com/series/grocerys-long-war Interview with historian Scott Price about 1987 Westfair strike https://www.rankandfile.ca/fighting-for-survival-manitobas-1987-westfair-strike/

Rank & File Radio - Prairie Edition

The Newfoundland Dominion strike and Grocery's Long War

Rank and File Radio - Prairie Edition is a spoken word show exploring the labour movement on the prairies, providing news, interviews and political analysis from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. It airs Sundays from 4 - 4:30 PM on CKUW 95.9 FM and is hosted and produced by Emily Leedham. This show is produced on Treaty 1 territory, original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. Rank and File Radio’s mandate is to: ● provide listeners with factual and informative labour news ● build solidarity for workers in struggle ● develop a coherent analysis of the labour movement ● contribute to the building of rank-and-file labour networks This show is volunteer-run and an independent partner with RankandFile.ca which provides Canadian labour news and analysis. For episode primers providing links to news articles and background information to accompany show interviews, follow Rank and File Radio - Prairie Edition on social media. Twitter: @RFRadioPrairie Facebook: @RankandFileRadioPrairie

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