UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE - I Was in The House When the House Burned Down (w/ Vincent Bevins)
The decade from 2010 to 2020 was one that saw more people around the world participating in protests than at any other point in human history. And yet, looking back, the results of so many of these ma...
9 Okt 20231h 1min
What Happens to the NLRB If the Government Shuts Down? (w/ Michael Bilik & Colton Puckett)
It is looking increasingly likely that Congressional Republicans will bring the federal government to a shutdown starting this weekend. "U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of tho...
28 Sep 20231h 3min
UAW Strike Update: More Auto Plants to Join 'Stand-Up' Strike (TRNN livestream w/ Martha Grevatt & Auston Gore)
The United Auto Workers are striking against all of the Big Three automakers at once for the first time in the union's history. The UAW is employing a novel "stand-up strike" strategy: rather than hav...
21 Sep 202357min
The UAW Is Ready to Fight (w/ Marcelina Pedraza, Torice Sawyer, & Nick Livick)
After the high-stakes contract fight between the Teamsters and UPS, the eyes of labor are now on the contract negotiations currently taking place between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto...
11 Sep 20231h 17min
One Fair Wage (w/ Tabina Gipson)
At the federal level today, the subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $2.13 an hour. That is, frankly, a disgrace. "A direct legacy of slavery," the One Fair Wage campaign notes, "the submi...
6 Sep 202324min
**Labor & the Long Road to Reunification in Korea (w/ Ju-Hyun Park)** PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Within the past two years, South Korea has seen major labor actions, including a general strike in October of 2021, and major crackdowns on organized labor, including the national intelligence agency ...
28 Aug 20231h 11min
Save WVU (w/ Leslie Wilber, Morgan King, & Jessie Wilkerson)
The world of higher education has been in shock this past week after West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee announced plans to dramatically cut academic programs and jobs in the coming year....
20 Aug 20231h 1min
Ana Jakopič
Ana Jakopič is a lawyer, organizer, and trade union leader in Slovenia. We talk to Ana about the different kinds of workers she organizes with on a daily basis, the struggles working people across Slo...
11 Aug 20231h 27min
