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325 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -A weekly labor news podcast covering workers‘ struggles around the world from a revolutionary left perspective.
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OT Ep 70 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 3
April 25, 2024 16:13 - 15 minutes - 35.2 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. The strike by textile mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in January of 1912 was one of the biggest labor struggles of the era, and launched Elizabeth Gurley Flynn onto the national stage. Already famous among radical workers for her fiery speaking abilities, her role in organizing the workers in Lawrence was critical to the strikes' success. Ensuring that all workers...
Ep 204 - The First of Many
April 23, 2024 15:34 - 1 hour - 208 MBThis week we are very lucky to be joined by Mel Buer, Staff Reporter for The Real News Network while Dan is away. We begin by talking about WGA workers at Sesame Street who won a TA after threatening to strike, making a conversation with children about working conditions loom over the non-profit Sesame Workshop. We celebrate 1700 performers at Disney Land filing for a union to join 21,000 other unionized workers at the park. Then we move to the story that is making international headlines wh...
Unlocked Interview: The Modern IWW
April 18, 2024 15:50 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBWe talk about a lot of labor history on our show, and one of the organizations we've come back to again and again is the Industrial Workers of the World. We've talked about the epic struggles in the early 20th century, but where is the IWW today, a century after its peak? We're joined by IWW Organizer and Trainer Maria Cunningham for a discussion of the modern IWW. We talk recent history, some prominent campaigns the IWW has led over the last few decades, and how the organization works in th...
Ep 203 - North of the Border
April 16, 2024 20:52 - 1 hour - 207 MBWe've got another episode jam packed full of new labor stories this week. After a run through the headlines, we've got big news from Canada, as workers at two Amazon warehouses in British Columbia have filed for a union election. Trader Joe's workers in Chicago have also filed, fighting a vicious union busting campaign. BU Grad workers have been on strike for weeks, fighting for wages to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the country. The CTU is gearing up for their next contract...
OT Ep 69 PREVIEW: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 2
April 11, 2024 15:38 - 18 minutes - 42.5 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was already an organizer before she even left High School. Traveling the industrial cities of the northeast to speak for workers, she quickly decided to dedicate her life to the cause of the working class. Her work with the IWW would take her across the whole Northern half of the country, and bring her in contact with many of the most towering figur...
Ep 202 - Our Invincible Solidarity
April 09, 2024 16:20 - 1 hour - 210 MBWe start our labor news updates this week with a big one from the UAW as 5000 workers at Mercedes Benz in Alabama have filed for a union election. Next we've got an update on Amazon, where illegal union busting continues at sites across the country. Also we discuss updates on union busting campaigns at REI, where even managers are getting fired for being pro union, and Trader Joe's, where managers referred to pro union workers as a "gang." We've got several stories about idiotic uses of AI t...
OT Ep 68 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 1
April 04, 2024 19:53 - 20 minutes - 47 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. Normally our history series tend to focus on mass movements, on structures, on the broad forces at play in the class struggle. But just because the class struggle is the motor of history, doesn't mean that individuals don't play critical roles. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of those exceptional working class leaders forged in struggle who played an outsized role in many ...
Ep 201 - Finished in Finland?
April 02, 2024 15:39 - 1 hour - 215 MBAfter running down some quick headlines (boycott Molson Coors!), we jump into our first story of the week, Amazon paying restitution to migrant workers who faced abuse while working in Amazon's Saudi Arabian warehouses. Next we discuss attacks on labor rights in Finland by the new right wing government, which threaten to roll back decades of labor gains. UAW supporters at Mercedes Benz in Alabama have filed ULP charges after the company began retaliating against workers for their union suppo...
UNLOCKED Overtime Episode 60 - Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 1
March 28, 2024 18:46 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBEpisode 1 - Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution We've covered a ton of different eras and stories of the US labor movement on our show, but unfortunately much of it has been heavily focused on solely male workers, leaving out the historic role women have played in shaping the trade union movement in this country. So in an attempt to help rectify that, we're embarking on the longest series we've ever done to discuss just a few of the incredible stories of struggle, solidarity, and suc...
Ep 200 - Episode 2000
March 26, 2024 16:33 - 1 hour - 203 MB200 episodes and the labor organizing doesn't stop. After checking in on some quick headlines, we discuss the latest major milestone in the UAW organizing drive at nonunion automakers, with workers officially filing for an election at VW. Also this week, a recent in-depth report in The Guardian documents awful, slavery-like conditions in the fishing industry. Similarly exploited workers, migrant agricultural workers, have been organizing for basic rights in Washington State. Finally, we cong...
Overtime Episode 67 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 8
March 21, 2024 15:43 - 18 minutes - 41.9 MBEpisode 8 - Feminism and Labor If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. The last forty years have seen massive changes in the US labor movement. With the rise of neoliberalism, combined attacks from corporations and the state decimated union density across the country. But the fight for women's equality in the workplace continued to build to new levels. With organizations like CLUW and 9 to 5 formed in the 70s ...
Ep 199 - Boycott Medieval Times
March 19, 2024 15:47 - 1 hour - 242 MBFor our first story this week we were lucky to be joined by labor reporter Claudia Irizarry Aponte from The City to follow up on the story she broke about alleged sweatshop conditions in a Brooklyn tobacco factory. Next we discuss the sad news that the Medieval Times union drive has been forced to disband after two years of vicious, illegal repression by the company. Boston commuter rail workers are prepared for a strike, despite the restrictions of the Railway Labor Act. Texas is working to...
Overtime Episode 66 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 7
March 14, 2024 16:27 - 15 minutes - 36.2 MBEpisode 7 - 1199 and the UFW If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. In the years following the McCarthyite purges of the early 1950s, the pace of progress in the labor movement cooled from its heady heights of the CIO and the 1946 strike wave. But new struggles still emerged all over the country, and women workers continued to break barriers. The fight by Local 1199 to organize the majority Black and Puerto R...
Ep 198 - Toyota Stands Up
March 12, 2024 15:23 - 1 hour - 221 MBAfter several quick headlines, we start this week with the first ever successful union election of a major men's basketball team in the NCAA at Dartmouth. Then we've got a major UAW update covering the last two weeks including major developments at Mercedes in Alabama, Toyota in Missouri, and more. We also discuss the continued existence of sweatshops right here in the US, as tobacco processing workers in NYC face horrific conditions. Unions in Minneapolis came together around years of organ...
Overtime Episode 65 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 6
March 07, 2024 16:55 - 16 minutes - 38.2 MBEpisode 6 - Women Build the CIO If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. For the first few decades of the 20th century, the AFL consistently failed to live up to its promises to fight for equal pay for equal work. But in the 1930s, an alternate labor federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, broke away and launched the most historic nationwide labor upsurge in US history, and a key part of their suc...
Ep 197 - Structural Forces and Bad Actors
March 05, 2024 17:07 - 1 hour - 219 MBIt's March! We begin by discussing yet another horrifying story of abuse of child labor, but also a story of how one UFCW local in Minnesota is fighting against the conditions creating it. In a huge milestone, Starbucks has agreed to a framework to move negotiations forward towards a national contract. Fast food companies are using AI, and of course it's to make their employees lives even worse. In a rare case, a boss is being held liable for killing a worker in New York. Finally, Teamsters...
Overtime Episode 64 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 5
February 29, 2024 16:21 - 13 minutes - 30.9 MBEpisode 5 - Communist Women In the Great Depression If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. The Great Depression was one of the greatest crises in capitalism's history, throwing millions out of work and pushing them to the brink of starvation. Women workers bore the brunt of this, being the first to be fired in nearly every workplace. But women workers fought back, organizing massive strikes, marches, and demo...
Ep 196 - Certified Mold Podcast
February 27, 2024 17:01 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBA lawsuit filed in Colorado this week to block the Kroger-Albertson's merger reveals anti-union collusion. Starbucks Workers United filed for union elections at 21 stores in one day. The UAW continued making major moves, doubling their organizing budget and launching an international support effort with Mexican autoworkers. IBEW faced mold so toxic whole building a new Ford battery plant they were hospitalized. One of the biggest new union wins we've seen in a long time came at Cal State thi...
Interview Preview: The Modern IWW
February 22, 2024 16:36 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We talk about a lot of labor history on our show, and one of the organizations we've come back to again and again is the Industrial Workers of the World. We've talked about the epic struggles in the early 20th century, but where is the IWW today, a century after its peak? We're joined by IWW Organizer and Trainer Maria Cunningham for a discussion of the modern IWW. We tal...
Ep 195 - Employee Owned Should Mean Employee Controlled
February 20, 2024 17:14 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBAfter a quick discussion of Amazon joining the corporate lawsuit aimed at destroying the NLRB, we turn to the continuing efforts by workers around the world to fight to end the genocide in Palestine. Next we discuss the latest round of protests by thousands of farmers in India fighting for their livelihoods. Farm owners in this country in NY have sued to stop a law granting labor rights to farm workers. 100,000 flight attendants picketed airports around the country to demand a fair contract....
Overtime Episode 63 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 4
February 15, 2024 16:46 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBEpisode 4 - Revolutionaries Press The Issue If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On the eve of WW1, a radical new force shook the US labor movement with its vision of all the workers under one big union, running society instead of the exploiters. The IWW also had a much more advanced vision of women's equality than prior national labor associations. Women workers in the IWW made major gains and reached heig...
Ep 194 - Booming in Chattanooga
February 13, 2024 16:42 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBWe start this week's episode with a quick rundown of new anti union repression at Starbucks and Amazon. This week workers calling for a ceasefire have reached the top of the US labor movement, with the AFL-CIO itself finally getting on board. The UAW continues its massive and ambitious nationwide union drive, hitting a critical milestone at VW in Chattanooga of a majority of workers signed up. Legal assaults on the labor rights of public workers in Florida are having major effects, with doze...
Overtime Episode 62 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 3
February 08, 2024 16:18 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBEpisode 3 - Garment Worker Rebellion If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On the third episode of our series, we zoom in to a few years at the beginning of the 20th century. From 1909-1913, tens of thousands of women workers in the garment industry in the industrial cities of the northern US organized and went on strike in record numbers. The conditions these workers labored in were truly shocking, and quit...
Ep 193 - Illegal Strikes are Good
February 06, 2024 16:53 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBWe're back to our original schedule and have a packed episode. First we follow up with the struggle against libertarian fascism in Argentina and an update on how Return to the Office policies are bullshit. We also discuss the recent revelation of a major wage theft ring in the pacific northwest and the refusal of the government to do anything to stop the criminals. Our now weekly UAW update discusses recent organizing victories in Michigan and Alabama, and a new drive at Hyundai in Montgome...
Overtime Episode 61 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 2
February 01, 2024 17:18 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode 2 - National Labor Organizations, But For Who? If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. For the second part of our series on the history of women workers in the US labor movement, we discuss the earliest attempts to form national labor organizations. Coming out of the Civil War, women were fighting against exploitation in the workplace, but were excluded from most of the trade union movement which focus...
Ep 192 - Educators for Palestine
January 29, 2024 17:12 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBWorkers in academia have wasted no time so far this year in launching ever larger struggles, including this week when 30,000 faculty at the California State system went on strike this week for fair pay. Contingent faculty at NYU have also been organizing to fight low wages, recently securing an election neutrality agreement. The largest union yet to call for a ceasefire joined the chorus this week, with the SEIU signing its 2 million members on the call for peace. The UAW's organizing drive ...
Overtime Episode 60 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 1
January 25, 2024 17:26 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBEpisode 1 - Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We've covered a ton of different eras and stories of the US labor movement on our show, but unfortunately much of it has been heavily focused on solely male workers, leaving out the historic role women have played in shaping the trade union movement in this country. So in an attempt to help rectify that, we're embark...
EP 191 - Unity Gets The Goods
January 22, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBAdda Coffee Relief Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-abruptly-fired-adda-workers-demand-for-severance-pay/ We start this week's episode checking in on some recent victories by the UAW. Next we discuss a judge smacking down Trader Joe's ridiculous copyright lawsuit against Trader Joe's United. Also this week, Adda Coffee in Pittsburgh shut its doors rather than allow a union, while the Supreme Court takes up a call by Starbucks to gut the NLRB. Once again we have another horr...
Preview: Confessions of a Union Buster Pt 2
January 18, 2024 16:26 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On the second part of our discussion of Confessions of a Union Buster, we sit down once again with our friend Pat to talk about the incredible number of ways that union busting tactics have remained the same for nearly 50 years. Wild stunts, illegal surveillance, and above all a crushing climate of fear characterize the campaigns described in Marty Leavitt's memoir of his...
Ep 190 - AI: Artificial Intimidation
January 15, 2024 16:22 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBWe start this week with a few quick congratulations to workers at Wells Fargo, DHL, and elsewhere before diving into a discussion of news this week that SAG-AFTRA has negotiated an agreement with an AI voice model company for video games. Then we discuss the ways AI is being used to surveil and even fire workers in many different industries. Next we have two stories on the horrific conditions of modern slavery face by agricultural workers supplying Starbucks and Kroger. Then we check in with...
Preview: Confessions of a Union Buster Pt 1
January 11, 2024 16:36 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. Friend of the show and head of our discord reading group Pat joins us this week to discuss one of their recent books, Confessions of a Union Buster by Martin J. Levitt and Terry Conrow. This book chronicles the life and tactics of one of the lowest, most disgraceful occupations out there, the union buster. Seeing the inner workings of those agents of the ruling class who ...
Ep 189 - New Year, New Struggles
January 08, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBFor our first episode of 2024, we've got tons new labor stories to cover. After some quick follow ups, we discuss a recent piece in Forbes about how our capitalist system is forcing elders to work longer and longer. Next we've got a bunch of UAW stories, starting with the fight for a fair contract by workers at Allison Transmission in Indianapolis. Also this week, UAW workers on Long Island fight back after solar company EmPower fired nearly half their staff in retaliation for unionizing. Th...
PREVIEW: 2023 Year In Review
January 04, 2024 12:50 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. 2023 was a monumental year for US labor. From the Teamsters contract fight at UPS winning historic gains, to the UAW's Stand Up strike changing the game tactically, workers fought back in huge numbers. On this episode, we run down the biggest stories we covered in the labor movement in 2023, from massive strikes to the endless stream of new major grad student union victo...
Ep 188 - 2024: The Struggle Continues
January 01, 2024 00:55 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBFor our final episode of 2023, despite the holidays we have a lot to cover. The longest adjunct faculty strike in US history ended with a new contract. Wells Fargo workers in Albuquerque became the first unionized branch of a major bank. Thousands of workers in Argentina have taken to the streets to protest President Milei's attempt to sell off the state by decree and destroy workers rights. Teamsters at Anheuser-Busch have voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike in February when thei...
UNLOCKED - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 1
December 25, 2023 14:11 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBWe're taking a break from new episode this week, but in the spirit of the season (such as it is this year), we're unlocking the first episode of one of our Patron series earlier this year, the history of the International Longshoremen's Association and the interference of the mafia and the federal government in worker organizing. Hope all our listeners are having a good holiday, and we'll see you with new episodes in 2024! Original Description: Episode 1 - Communism vs. Corruption One of...
Overtime Episode 57 PREVIEW - Military Unions Pt 6
December 21, 2023 12:51 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. For the finale of our series discussion various attempts at organizing soldiers during the 1970s, we arrive at one of the most dynamic of the era, Portugal. With the collapse of Portugal's fascist dictatorship in the wake of the Carnation Revolution, the organized military played a key, leading role in the social transformation of the country. We discuss how the politica...
Ep 187 - America Runs on Slavery
December 18, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBAfter some quick follow ups on organizing at Ben & Jerry's and Grindr, we get into the big stories in labor as 2023 winds down. More and more unions are standing up against genocide, with 1199 and NNU joining the call for a ceasefire. The UAW filed ULPs against 3 automakers this week for interfering with organizing campaigns. The NLRB ordered Starbucks to reopen 23 stores it closed for unionizing, but results may be a long ways off. Incarcerated workers in Alabama filed a massive class actio...
Overtime Episode 56 PREVIEW - Military Unions Pt 5
December 14, 2023 12:34 - 20 minutes - 19 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On this week's installment of our series examining attempts to organize unions of soldiers, we move to Western Europe. In a whirlwind tour we discuss Germany, Italy, France, and Spain's various forms of military labor organizations. The refusal of the US to de-Nazify West Germany played a major role in the rebuilt Bundeswehr's conservatism, including on the issue of soldi...
Ep 186 - Kentucky Wildcat
December 11, 2023 13:02 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBWe've got a very Kentucky-centric episode this week, with two different labor disputes at the KCVG airport with union busting at Amazon and a strike by Teamsters at DHL. Also in Kentucky, Sunergos coffee workers in Louisville finally won a first contract after a weeklong strike. In academic organizing news, adjunct faculty at Columbia College in Chicago are on the longest adjunct strike in US history to fight back against attempts to slash courses and increase class sizes. Teachers have also...
Overtime Episode 55 PREVIEW - Military Unions Pt 4
December 07, 2023 12:39 - 16 minutes - 15 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. On Part 4 of our series looking at attempts to organize soldiers, we discuss the Scandinavian countries. While none of the various soldier unions formed in these countries transformed their society, they showed a wide range of levels of effectiveness. From Norway's quasi-company union, to Sweden's VVDM-esque liberal militancy, to Finland's conscript mass organization whic...
Ep 185 - Life is More Than Work
December 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBLina is away this week so it's just the boys on this episode of Work Stoppage. The UAW became the largest and most prominent union to join the calls for a ceasefire this week, the same week they launched the largest organizing drive the US has seen in years. Portland teachers ended their three week strike with a new contract with major wins. Sweden's labor movement continues to shut down Tesla as Elon tries to sue them for striking. The RMT agreed to a new contract this week, ending their ep...
Overtime Episode 54 PREVIEW - Military Unions Pt 3
November 30, 2023 12:05 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. For the third installment of our series discussing the history of attempts to unionize members of the military, based largely on the book Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies by David Cortright and Max Watts, we discuss the Dutch. From the 1960s to the 80s, with the Dutch military squarely in the middle of NATO's confrontation with the USSR,...
Ep 184 - Minimum Wage is Not Enough
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBBlack Friday means we've got a retail and service work news packed episode this week. First we start on a sad note discussing the end of the Medieval Times strike in California. Next we discuss the McCarthyite retaliation being faced by unionized public defenders in New York City for taking a stand in favor of Palestinian human rights. A recent piece in The Guardian exposes the way service workers from other countries are exploited by the J-1 work visa program. 20,000 cleaning workers in NYC...
Overtime Episode 53 PREVIEW - Military Unions - Pt 2
November 23, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We're back with the next installment of our discussion of attempts in (relatively) recent history to form unions within military organizations. In this episode we cover the brief period following the end of the Vietnam War when major public worker unions in the US began seriously considering organizing soldiers. We discuss a planned campaign by the AFGE to potentially add...
Ep 183 - We Win Through Struggle
November 20, 2023 13:01 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBThe whole crew is back together again for another big week of labor news. After our weekly roundup of how workers around the world are standing up for Palestine, we get into a slew of stories about major new contracts. Kaiser Permanente workers ratified their new contract nearly unanimously after their historic three day strike last month. UAW workers at the Big 3 also ratified their new agreements won during the Stand Up Strike, as did the UAW workers at Mack Trucks. We also break down the ...
UNLOCKED - Movie Time 3 - The Organizer and Western Ghats
November 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBThe whole crew is a bit overwhelmed this week, Dan is sick, John's class is in crunch mode, and Lina's putting the finishing touches on the rest of the Military Unions series. So this week we're unlocking one of our favorite Movie Time episodes for everyone. Both these labor movies are likely less well known by most of our audience, but they're some of the best we've discussed. Part 2 of our series on attempts to organize in the military will arrive next week. Original Description: First we...
Ep 182 - Internationalism On Display Feat. Maximillian Alvarez
November 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBThis week we are very happy to to be joined by Maximillian Alvarez Editor in Chief of The Real News Network and host of Working People Podcast. We start with highlighting some of the many brave actions by workers, activists, and unions in solidarity with Palestine in opposition to those complicit and exacerbating the genocide being enacted by Israel. From people blocking weapons ships in Oakland and Tacoma to Italy and commitments to action from unions in Belgium and the UK to solidarity sta...
Overtime Episode 52 PREVIEW - Military Unions - Pt 1
November 09, 2023 12:29 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBIf you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. One question that has arisen over and over in the history of revolutionary movements has been: what about the military? Does it make sense to try and organize soldiers, sailors, and airmen, especially if they come from working class backgrounds? Or is it a futile effort to try and break into such a hierarchical, rigid system? In this series, we'll examine some of the hist...
Ep 181 - Workers Can Stop Arms Dealers feat. Alexander Edward of Minion Death Cult
November 06, 2023 19:04 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBThis week we are joined by Alexander Edward of Minion Death Cult and long time UPS worker! We start with some follow-up on Walgreens and CVS walkouts, felony vandalism charges being dropped against University of California Grad Student Workers, and the Las Vegas Culinary Union where 35,000+ Workers are set to strike on Nov 10th. In our main stories we start with actions by workers with the support of many organizations to shut down INKAS, an arms dealer sending weapons to Israel in order to ...
Shop Floor Discussion 9 - TA at the Big 3
November 02, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBOne of the biggest labor stories of 2023 has been the historic Stand Up Strike by the UAW, with the union taking on all of the Big 3 US automakers at the same time for the first time ever. After six weeks on strike, with nearly 50,000 autoworkers on the picket lines, this week the union reached agreements with all three companies. These agreements, though they remain tentative until the rank and file determine if they're good enough, contain historic gains. We break down each agreement, disc...