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Rob Ashton is a trade unionist, longshoreman, and candidate running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. He has spent more than three decades working on Canada’s docks and in the labour movement, rising through the ranks of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He’s been a dock worker, business agent, vice-president, and since 2016, president of ILWU Canada, representing thousands of workers across British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
On this episode of Activists Make History, host Peggy Nash talks to Ashton about his vision for Canada’s NDP as the party of workers and everyday people.
Activists Make History with Peggy Nash is a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal that finds the political underdogs and asks how they got started, against the odds, to fight for progressive change. This series has been made possible with the generous support of Unifor.
