Best Iww Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 209 - Worker Power for Peace 1:18:56

2h ago1:18:56

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We briefly discuss new ULP charges against Amazon for surveillance, Boeing's latest lowball offer to their locked out fire fighters, Teamsters at MolsonCoors winning a tentative agreement, and Scarlet Johansson fighting the theft of her voice by AI to start out with some headlines. Also this week, dockworkers in Oakland are pushing for the ILWU to …

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Lessons from 100 Years of Labor Organizing in the South with Michael Goldfield - TVLR 5/25/24 1:29:46

6h ago1:29:46

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We talk to professor Michael Goldfield about the Mercedes UAW campaign in light of his historical work on southern labor. Speaking of Mercedes - the union is asking the NLRB for a rerun. In OVERTIME, we talk to Sarah Jaffe about her week in Tuscaloosa, the fight for a 40 hour work week, and why Work Won't Love You Back. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor R…

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Andrew Lee on Displacement, Rising Rents, and Social War

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On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Andrew Lee, an organizer and author of the new book out from AK Press, Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War. During our discussion, we speak with Lee about how elites, capitalists, and city bureaucrats are banking on gentrification and how people are pushing back agai…

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The Memorial Day Massacre (Encore) 52:42

1h ago52:42

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Joe McCartin, Ben Blake and Julie Greene remember the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police opened fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160. Patrick Dixon interviews Tom Sito on the 1941 strike by animators against Walt Disney. Sito, a well-known American animator (Who Framed Roger R…

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Overtime Episode 71 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 5 16:49

2h ago16:49

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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 first Red Scare following the US entry into World War 1 threw the US left into intense turmoil. Though Elizabeth Gurley Flynn had left the IWW over organizational and strategic differences, she was swept up in the Palmer Raid…

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OVERTIME: Corps of Engineers Employee SPEAKS OUT About Clean Water Act Enforcement - TVLR 5/18/24 1:16:29

18m ago1:16:29

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We talk to Collin Smalley, President of IFPTE Local 777 about enforcement of the Clean Water Act. We take a call and respond to clips, ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing relevant news to …

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Ep 208 - Wins Within a Loss 1:35:02

1h ago1:35:02

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We've got another packed episode after a ton of news in the labor movement this week. First, workers in Quebec have successfully formed the first recognized union at an Amazon warehouse in Canada. Next we discuss efforts by agribusiness giant Wonderful Nurseries to overturn California labor law to fight the UFW. We've got a lot of news about the UA…

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Workers at Mercedes Lose Election, but the Fight isn't Over - TVLR 5/18/24 1:29:26

1h ago1:29:26

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Big loss at Mercedes in Tuscaloosa, but a big win at New Flyer in Anniston. Lots of news in Alabama! ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing relevant news to workers in Alabama and beyond. Our…

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“The Black Wobbly” gets a mural 35:26

1h ago35:26

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A mural celebrating Ben Fletcher – “The Black Wobbly” – was unveiled in Philadelphia on May 18; check out our audio postcard. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Remembering C.L.R. James Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor Histo…

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OVERTIME: Mercedes Workers Say to BET ON THE UNION Ahead of Election - TVLR 5/11/24 1:45:45

11h ago1:45:45

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In OVERTIME, we're talking to Jeremy Kimbrell to let us know how it feels on the shop floor in the run up to the Mercedes vote. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing relevant news to workers…

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Ep 207 - Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Firefighters 1:36:44

2h ago1:36:44

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The whole gang's back together for the first time in a month! This week, we saw faculty at both NYU and UNC-Chapel Hill, among other schools, launch grading strikes to demand amnesty for protestors brutally arrested during encampment sweeps. Also this week, train drivers in the UK launched yet another series of rolling strikes as the train operator…

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Who is Really Fighting Against Alabama's Auto Workers? - TVLR 5/11/24 1:29:32

5d ago1:29:32

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Mercedes workers vote on a union next week, and they're facing a massive anti-union campaign. Who's funding it? Derek Siedman breaks it down for us. The legislative session just wrapped, we fill you in on the good, the bad, and the ugly. In OVERTIME, we're talking to Jeremy Kimbrell to let us know how it feels on the shop floor in the run up to the…

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The 1938 Crisfield Crab Pickers Strike 33:41

8d ago33:41

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Before last Friday, to know about the 1938 crab pickers strike in Crisfield, Maryland, you had to know about it. This is the story of so many worker struggles in this country; hard-fought fights that unlike other battles – the Civil War, for example – have virtually no monuments or plaques, no visitor centers. But now, on Crisfield Highway, Marylan…

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OT Ep 70 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 4 18:21

20d ago18:21

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If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. Following the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn became a national name in labor. Her organizing skills and rousing speaking were sought after by workers all over the country. Flynn …

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Hillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial Midwest 43:45

3h ago43:45

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Dr. Max Fraser shares the often overlooked story of the “hillbilly highway,” the route nearly eight million poor, rural, white Americans took in the 20th century from economically depressed areas in the Southeastern and Southern United States toward higher paying factory jobs in the Upper South and Midwest. He explains how the social advancement an…

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OVERTIME: Shawn Fain has One Neat Trick for Biden to Make the Protests Go Away - TVLR 5/4/24 1:32:32

2h ago1:32:32

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College students and workers across the country are protesting for Palestine, Democrats hate it, and Shawn Fain has some words of wisdom. Adam talks to us about how unions are structured and we interview Chevelle and Emma about the newly unionized topless bar in Northern California. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio sho…

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Ep 206 - No Time Like Today 1:26:42

22d ago1:26:42

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We continue our host shuffle this week as Dan is back, but John is away. We do run through a bunch of headlines but our focus this week is on a few stories. The biggest story in the country, the fight by college students against the genocide waged by our government in Palestine, is also a labor story. The attack on these students is an assault on a…

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Alabama College Worker Talks Union Fight for Living Wage at Jacksonville State - TVLR 5/4/24 1:29:54

14d ago1:29:54

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Workers on college campuses in Alabama are fighting for a living wage. Some people want teachers to have maternity leave, others think they have it too good already. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same,…

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“They’ll Never Forget It”: Report from the Battle to Defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA 54:28

23d ago54:28

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Photo by Shay Horse On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the mass mobilization to defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, which was attacked by far-Right Zionists on April 30th and then by hundreds of riot police on May 1st, who made over 200 violent arrests. During …

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“I'm taking pictures of the history of today” 23:27

15d ago23:27

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In 1946, as part of a strike-ending agreement negotiated between the Department of the Interior and the United Mine Workers of America, photographer Russell Lee went into coal communities located in remote areas across the United States, documenting miners in 13 states. Photographs from this federal project have rarely been studied or exhibited—unt…

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OVERTIME: Democracy in Contract Campaigns - TVLR 4/27/24 1:32:37

18d ago1:32:37

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We speak to an educator about how to infuse a contract campaign with democracy. We also respond to right wing attacks on the UAW and explain what right to work is. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, a…

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Ep 205 - Resistance University 1:29:24

29d ago1:29:24

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After a few headlines touching on a vetoed farm worker bill in Maine, Amazon organizing in Canada, a life changing win by GM sanitation workers, and UFCW rank and file action updates, we begin this week with a massive protest in Argentina to defend the university system. Then we talk about striking Indiana University graduate student workers which …

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Alabama Auto Workers SPEAK OUT After LANDSLIDE UAW Win in Chattanooga - TVLR 4/27/24 1:29:31

13d ago1:29:31

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We speak to Alabama auto workers Quichelle Liggins from Hyundai in Montgomery and Jacob Ryan from Mercedes in Vance about their campaigns after the huge win in Chattanooga. We'll also get caught up on the legislative session and respond to some of the latest attacks from politicians on the UAW. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union ta…

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“UAW’s Southern Gamble” pays off 37:56

22d ago37:56

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To call the April 19 vote by Volkswagen AG workers in Tennessee to unionize historic may be a bit of an understatement. Not only was it the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to organize, the vote was a mind-blowing 2,628-985, or 73% in favor. The win by the United Auto Workers came after decades of losses as plant after plant opened acros…

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IWW PODCAST #EP100 FEAT UNCLE SHARMA | THE 2ND STAR IS ALL THAT MATTERS 54:12

19d ago54:12

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Join Anth and Uncle Sharma as we continue the scudetto party!

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“We Are Not Afraid of You”: Voices from Inside the Growing Anti-War Movement Sweeping US Campuses 1:28:20

18d ago1:28:20

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On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the country that are taking part in the exploding movement of anti-war encampments and occupations sweeping across US campuses in solidarity with Palestine. First, we speak with someone at Columbia University in New York. We discuss how the Right and the campus admin…

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OT Ep 70 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 3 15:23

1M ago15:23

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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 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…

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OVERTIME: Effective Stewarding w/ Joe Demanuelle-Hall + Labor's Finances w/ Chris Bohner - TVLR 9/3/22 1:26:30

20d ago1:26:30

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We talk to Labor Notes' Joe Demanuelle Hall about how to be an effective steward and then to Chris Bohner about the finances of the labor movement. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing rele…

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Ep 204 - The First of Many 1:30:50

1M ago1:30:50

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This 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 Disn…

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UNIONS 101 - TVLR 4/23/24 1:59:58

24d ago1:59:58

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We assembled an all start panel to talk about the basics of unionism for folks new to the movement: Jonnie Lane - Association of Flight Attendents (AFA-CWA), Delta Graham Gale - REI Union SOHO (RWDSU) Lee Diaz - UAW Local 2110 Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), NYU Michelle Eisen - Starbucks Worked United (SBWU) Haeden Wright - United Mi…

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The Return of John Brown 35:14

29d ago35:14

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Abolitionist John Brown is mistaken for a Black Lives Matter activist in Gene Bruskin’s latest labor musical, and a tour guide keeps Black worker history alive. Excerpted from the Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHist…

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This Is America #196: Houston Food not Bombs Fights City Hall, Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union, National Guard on New York Subway 2:30:59

18d ago2:30:59

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Welcome, to This Is America, April 18th, 2024. In this episode, first we present an interview with a member of Houston Food Not Bombs, who speaks about how the group has been pushing back on attempts by the city to shut down their mutual aid program through ongoing ticketing and police harassment. We then turn towards New York City, and discuss how…

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Unlocked Interview: The Modern IWW 51:12

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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 o…

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OVERTIME: This Politician Lied About a Trump-Era Alabama Plant Closure to Attack the UAW - TVLR 4/13/24 1:32:43

26d ago1:32:43

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In OVERTIME, we bring on the president of the Steelworkers local at the former Gadsden Goodyear plant to respond to the slander against his union from a politician. We also reveal to Jesse Watters that $20/hr = / = six figures. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairne…

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Ep 203 - North of the Border 1:30:13

1M ago1:30:13

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We'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…

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These Union Nurses Are Organizing the South - TVLR 4/13/24 1:28:09

27d ago1:28:09

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We have a rockstar panel of southern nurses on to discuss healthcare organizing. We also talk about the latest moves in the legislature and with the UAW campaign in Alabama. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do t…

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The ’34 Toledo Auto-Lite strike 30:19

2M ago30:19

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The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike is one of the three most important in U.S. history, yet it’s largely unknown; why? Plus: CBTU president Terry Melvin on why the AFL-CIO’s Gompers Room was renamed the Solidarity Room. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Debs goes to prison. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you ca…

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7 Steps to Starting Your Own Jail Support Network Where You Live [AUDIOZINE] 8:23

1M ago8:23

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This is the audiozine version of our production of 7 Steps to Starting Your Own Jail Support Network Where You Live [AUDIOZINE] made in collaboration with Clover from PDX Jail Support. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Organizing the Unhoused: An Organizer's Manual [AUDIOZINE] 39:10

1M ago39:10

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This is the audiozine version of our production of Organizing the Unhoused: An Organizer's Manual made in collaboration with Royt of the IWW. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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