‘I’m not hiring no Indian’: Indigenous man says Winnipeg tried to muzzle his complaints with non-disclosure agreement – APTN News
May 05, 2025
Manitoba justice minister says he’s open to seeking advice on what are known as NDAs.
Borrowing a biblical phrase – “Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees” [Isaiah 10:1] – is what got activist and then-editor of the Western Labor News J.S. Woodsworth thrown in jail in the summer of 1919 for seditious libel during the Winnipeg General Strike.
One hundred years later, at the same spot where young men pushed over a street car in a riot, APTN Investigates: Unmuted focuses on a contemporary way of silencing labour voices with a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
The episode opens with a small workers’ meeting – organized by the reporter – at Winnipeg’s monument to the violent culmination of the 1919 strike, which dramatically depicts a day known as Bloody Saturday when a streetcar was pushed over and two were shot dead by the North-West Mounted Police.
