(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE - Labor Notes Postgame (w/ Tevita 'Uhatafe, McKenna Schueler, & Jacob Morrison)
We wish everyone could have been in Chicago for the Labor Notes 2022 conference! But for those who couldn't make it, we convened this comradely panel with some fan-favorite guests of the show—Tevita '...
4 Jul 20221h 17min
Alicia Johnson
The Amazon Labor Union victory at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island was historic, but right now, as we speak, Amazon is currently in court trying to throw out the results of that election, and pro-u...
29 Jun 20221h 2min
Dr. Frances Gill
We all know that, even before the horrific, world-changing event of COVID-19, society would fall apart without hospital workers and medical staff. But as we also know, like so many other fields and se...
23 Jun 20221h 17min
Dollar Store Workers Deserve Better (w/ Kenya Slaughter & Curtis Williams)
From Dollar General and Dollar Tree to Family Dollar, dollar stores are spreading rapidly throughout Louisiana and across the country, but dollar store workers notoriously have to endure low pay, unde...
19 Jun 202257min
Starbucks Sinks to a New Low (w/ Nadia Vitek)
We've adjusted our episode publishing schedule to bring y'all an urgent episode about Starbucks' escalating retaliation against pro-union workers and Starbucks Workers United. As Rina Torchinsky write...
9 Jun 202231min
The Five-Year Union Election (w/ Maggie Levantovskaya)
Adjunct faculty and lecturers at Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit university in Silicon Valley, have been working to organize a non-tenure-track faculty union for five years. Along with naviga...
2 Jun 202246min
Caliber Workers Union (w/ Tyler Powles & Erinn Murphy)
Caliber Public Schools, a group of charter schools in Northern California, states on its website that its mission is "to achieve educational equity by shifting the experiences, expectations and outcom...
26 Mai 20221h 26min
Tevita 'Uhatafe
If you were following the strikes and labor actions that were happening last year, then you may have noticed that a certain face kept popping up in photos and reports from picket lines all over the co...
21 Mai 20221h 39min
