Saskatoon Solidarity | Don Kossick on the Co-op strikes & the struggle for democratic control - a podcast by Emily Leedham

Hello and welcome to Rank & File Radio - Prairie Edition on CKUW 95.90 FM. Canadian labour news and analysis across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This show is an independent partner with RankandFile.ca and supported by UFCW Local 832.

This episode is broadcasting from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 territory, the original lands of the Cree, Oji Cree Anishnaabeg Dakota and Dene peoples and the homeland of the Metis nation.

Today’s broadcast date is November 18, 2018. I’m your host, Emily Leedham.

This show is supported by listeners through Patreon and by UFCW Local 832.

Today on the show, the Saskatoon Co-op strikes continues, fighting a two-tiered wage system that would see new hires earn less. I was in Saskatoon this weekend and visited the Martensville Co-op picket line, which is a town 15 minutes outside city. There I talked to Lucy Flack Figueiredo, Secretary-Treasurer for UFCW 1400.

And Don Kossick, activist and organizer in Saskatoon, co-op member and former UFCW negotiator, shares a bit of historical context for the co-op strike and what it might mean for the future of co-op going forward. Don produces a community radio program Making the Links on CFCR 90.5 FM.

We’ll also hear some audio from the National Farmer’s Union Convention and a Fight for $15 organizing meeting hosted by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour.

But first, an update on the CUPW strike.

---- The Co-op Strike: Big Solidarity in Little Martensville----

http://rankandfile.ca/the-co-op-strike/

--- Don Kossick---

https://www.donkossick.ca/

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