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Nov 15
2 min

MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor

“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read it. Those voices are up in the ether, and they will remain there until the earth falls into the sun. So anybody going forward who wants to write something about the murder of Martin Luther King is going to have to deal with those people, those voices, those witnesses that we gathered there. You will not be able to go around it and not deal w

Oct 12
3 min

Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy

“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal...We held these bad boss contests. Where the first winner was a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was really dire out there. And when we started speaking up, everyone was so shocked. It was like the wallpaper had come alive.” Ellen Cassedy, 9 to 5 Listen wherever you get your podcast! Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Audi

Oct 4
2 min

Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography

“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out, they're dispersed, very transient workplaces and so they're very low density unions. And also, renewable energy projects because of the tax credit system in our country, are owned by Wall Street. Some of the wealthiest people in the whole economy are the ones that have financing and stakes in these renewable energy projects. So, renewable energ

Sep 15
2 min

Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer

“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about the dues part of it because you'll get to see the contract and do the math. If the dues are worth it, sign the contract, right? If they aren't, you don't have to sign for it. As long as the workers are on the same page.” Billy Jarboe, AppleCore Member and Organizer Listen to wherever you get your podcast. In June 2022, more than 100 Apple

Sep 3
2 min

THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain

"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"

Aug 23
2 min

Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes people…I mean, it obviously educates people and opens their eyes to how important labor is. And also you have people who are going through their own union busting campaigns. They're going through having to negotiate contracts with their own boss. And so it really has elevated the profile of unions in the news.” Hamilton Nolan American Labor Journa

Aug 19
3 min

Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay

"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding th

Aug 12
2 min

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..

Aug 3
2 min

Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers

The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs

Aug 2
2 min

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.” Jim Key - President Atomic Energy Workers Council Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Wor

Jul 18
1 min

Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander

his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri

Jun 9
1 min

Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries - Excerpt 3

Mother Jones is one of my heroes.

May 4
1 min

Jay Naidoo - General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Apartheid used racial discrimination as an instrument to maintain the cheap labor system. So the core of apartheid was a cheap labor system, based on black exploitation.” Jay Naidoo is a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and author. Jay served as the first general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions from 1985 to 1993. Following South Africa's transition to democracy in the early 1990s, Jay served as a cabinet minister under the late P

May 3
1 min

The Mother of all Evil is Speculation

Excerpt from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps You're all pretty much fucked. They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of credit: CMO, CDOs, SIVs, ABS… So Mr. Banker starts leveraging his interest 50 to 1, with your money because he could. 40% of all American corporate profits came from financial services, not production, not anything remotely to do with the needs of the American public. The mother of all evil is speculation, leveraged debt, borrowing to the hilt

Apr 20
2 min

How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media

“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in tight, addictive prose.” Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1-9-8-1. Timothy has written 9 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, 2 stand alone crime novels, and he is the founder of Hard Ball Press to help working clas

Apr 15
1 min

Organize the Churches and Rejoice with Matt Bernico - Belief Street Faith and Labor

"You can rally around those people and say, 'No more killing of people through the slow crucifixions of low wage work, union busting, and lack of healthcare.'” Matt Bernico recently published an article in Sojourners Magazine titled RECENT UNION WINS MEAN IT’S TIME FOR MORE ORGANIZED RELIGION. On this Easter Weekend, I needed to learn more. We discuss how Jesus belongs to a particular class of people in history called the crucified people; The powers and principalities using

Apr 5
1 min

Turning the Tables - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 5

We continue to explore ways in which if advocates and workers themselves are part of the design and control of platforms...

Mar 31
2 min

The Future We Need by Erica Smiley & Sarita Gupta - Harmony of Interest Book Talks

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people—not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives. Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining pow

Mar 28
2 min

Aung Kyaw, Co-Founder of Thailand's Migrant Worker Rights Network

"When I arrived in Thailand, I was an illegal migrant worker. But even though I work in a factory, I read the news every day. I read about the minimum wage. I read about eight hour working hours and how much workers should get paid for overtime." Aung Kyaw, Co-Founder of Thailand's Migrant Worker Rights Network Aung Kyaw is one of the founders and longtime lead organizers of the Migrant Worker Rights Network, a membership-based organization for migrant workers from Myanmar re

Mar 27
1 min

The Company You Keep - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 4

An ethical businessperson helps us understand alternatives to the exploitative gig model. We ask: if we keep humans in the loop, can tech in the domestic and care sector be an opportunity rather than a curse? Guests: Aaron Seyedian, Well-Paid Maids; Sayem, domestic worker About The Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future o