All over the place

Guest: Maria Helena Andre

Host: Ruwan Subasinghe

Song Credit: Around the corner by James Nick Solder / The Corner

In our fourth special show about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on working people, ITF legal director Ruwan Subasinghe talks to Maria Helena Andre, director of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) bureau for workers' activities (ACTRAV). Maria Helena Andre talks about the ILO's role during this crisis, the threat to the rights of working people and how the world of work might change.

Guest: Mohamed Mezghani
Host: Alana Dave
Song Credit: Around the corner by James Nick Solder / The Corner

In our third special show about the impact of Covid-19 on working people, ITF urban transport director Alana Dave, talks to Mohamed Mezghani, UITP secretary general. The UITP is the international organisation for public transport authorities and operators.  Mohamed Mezghani talks about the effects on public transport services during the pandemic, the role of workers and how public transport must remain central to modern life after the crisis.

Guests: Eva Guta and Lisa Kelly
Host: Kim Rojas
Song Credit: Around the corner by James Nick Solder / The Corner

In our second special show about how the Covid-19 response is affecting working people, ITF project specialist (ending violence against women transport workers) Kim Rojas talks to Lisa Kelly and Eva Guta. Lisa Kelly is the national director of the women's department from Unifor the union, Canada, and Eva Guta is a labour and community activist in Canada, with over 20 years of dedication to stopping violence against women. They talk about the particular effects on working women of the Covid-19 crisis, and how the Unifor women's advocate program is responding. The programme was started in 1989, it supports women and men facing violence at work and at home. 

Guest: Dan Mihadi
Host: Alana Dave
Song Credit: Around the corner by James Nick Solder / The Corner 

In this special show about the Covid-19 response, ITF urban transport director Alana Dave talks to Dan Mihadi. Dan Mihadi is the general secretary of the Transport and Allied Workers' Union (TAWU), Kenya, and he explains how daily life has changed in Nairobi and the challenges face by informal and formal public transport workers in his union. 

Guest: Professor Tessa Wright
Host: Jodi Evans
Song Credit: Around the corner by James Nick Solder / The Corner 

On this show we talk about the fact that women are not 'all over the place' in the transport industry, and what needs to be done to address this inequality. The conversation is about the gender-segregated nature of the transport industry, its impacts, the intersection of this issue and technology, how transport and other industries are achieving positive change – or not – and what can and should be done by employers, unions, and the institutions that finance transport projects to ensure all workers have access to safe and decent transport jobs.