| Today's program is hosted by Glen Clark. Recently Clark was forced to resign from the office of Premier of British Columbia and leader of the labour backed NDP ( New Democratic Party) by what could be best described as a concerted corporate media coup. We are honoured to have him volunteer with us. |  |
Hundreds, maybe thousands of English language music videos are produced every year but its very rare to find one with explicit "labour" content. Today we air two of the best ever, both made in Canada.
 | Still from Good Medicine, a fine music video from the Canadian Auto Workers union, which presents alternatives and hope for workers caught in a cycle of substance abuse. |
Good Medicine from the Canadian Auto Workers union looks and sounds like a mainstream production, and it should. The CAW paid several hundreds of thousands of dollars for it. It couples a great song ( Good Medicine ) by Toronto singer songwriter Lorraine Segato, with a story about a white male industrial worker so addicted to booze and drugs that his family begins to disintegrate and he puts his job in jeopardy.
| "Hitting bottom", in Good Medicine. |  |
He "hits bottom" and begins the journey to "recovery". He re-unites his family and finds strength and meaning through union solidarity and activism. There is no explicit reference to the 12 Step programs that have helped so many workers recover from addictions. Instead Good Medicine describes the recovery experience with popular music and video, to create discourse about a subject that is seldom discussed openly in Canadian union culture.
No Justice! No Peace! produced by Don Bouzek of Ground Zero Productions, for OPESEU, the 67,000 member Ontario Public Service Employees' Union.
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| The Tories send the riot squad to bust OPSEU picket line at Queens Park, the Ontario Legislature, in this image from No Justice! No Peace! |  |
Shot primarily by OPSEU activists this video is a "Strike Memoir" of the 1996 OPSEU strike against the Harris "Common Sense Revolution" Tory government in Ontario.
working TV #156, RT: 27:30 each,
October 15 1999
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