Episodios

  • S4 E8 – How businesses benefit from inflation

    S4 E8 – How businesses benefit from inflation
    Sep 1 2025
    Happy Labour Day, fellow workers! We often hear about how inflation affects the working class, but it affects the owning class, too. Just not in the same way. In contrast with the working class, who see real wages drop when inflation outpaces raises, the owning class actually benefits from inflation. In final episode of season […]
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    2 m
  • S4 E7 – Where worker wages actually come from

    S4 E7 – Where worker wages actually come from
    Aug 25 2025
    You’ve probably heard that business owners provide their workers with a job and a salary. In episode 7 of season 4 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever explains why that framing of our current economic system is misleading. Follow The Alberta Worker: Facebook: facebook.com/albertaworkerTwitter: twitter.com/ABWorkerLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/albertaworkerBluesky: bsky.app/profile/abworker.bsky.socialThreads: threads.com/@thealbertaworker Support The Alberta […]
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    8 m
  • Bonus: Defying Orders—Air Canada Workers on Strike

    Bonus: Defying Orders—Air Canada Workers on Strike
    Aug 19 2025
    Over 10,000 CUPE unionized Air Canada workers defied the orders of the nation’s labour board, stayed off the job and secured a tentative agreement. Kim Siever, labour journalist for the The Alberta Worker, joins Blueprints of Disruption host Jessa McLean to talk about what led up to the strike, the Liberals’ liberal use of back-to-work legislation, and what this […]
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    44 m
  • S4 E6 – Why labour is more important than capital

    S4 E6 – Why labour is more important than capital
    Aug 18 2025
    Have you ever heard a politician refer to company owners as job creators? First of all, it’s a myth. But politicians use this rhetoric to frame the owning class as the ones who drive the economy. They say that if they give them tax cuts, they’ll have more money, which they’ll spend on hiring more people. And […]
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    6 m
  • S4 E5 – How a unionized job changed my life

    S4 E5 – How a unionized job changed my life
    Aug 11 2025
    Independent labour journalist Kim Siever has worked in a lot of jobs since he entered the workforce back in 1989. He’s been been a fry cook, a construction worker, a gas jockey (3 times), a retail clerk (5 times), a carpet cleaner, a courier (2 times), a dispatcher, a fleet manager, a processing clerk, a […]
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    3 m
  • S4 E4 – Relying on low minimum wages is bad business

    S4 E4 – Relying on low minimum wages is bad business
    Aug 4 2025
    Have you ever noticed that every time the minimum wage increases, business owners seem to come out of the woodwork to complain about it? They claim it’ll force them to shut down, that it’ll eat into their margins, and that they’ll have no choice but to charge customers more? In episode 4 of season 4 […]
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    5 m
  • S4 E3 – Collectivize, not unionize, should be our motto

    S4 E3 – Collectivize, not unionize, should be our motto
    Jul 28 2025
    In episode 3 of season 4 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever discuss how unions can only get us so far when we’re in hierarchal, undemocratic workplaces. While unions play a critical role in improving labour conditions, wages, and benefits, we shouldn’t forget that there’s an alternative approach: workplace collectivization, which […]
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    5 m
  • S4 E2 – TFWs need our solidarity, not our xenophobia

    S4 E2 – TFWs need our solidarity, not our xenophobia
    Jul 21 2025
    In episode 2 of season 4 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever discuss how temporary foreign workers need our solidarity, not our xenophobia. Temporary foreign workers are workers, too. Our fight for worker justice must include them, because when one worker is exploited, all workers are at risk. Follow The Alberta […]
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    6 m