Best Iww Podcasts (2024)

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Unlocked Interview: The Modern IWW 51:12

8d ago51:12

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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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Connecting the ACLU, NRA and IWW 21:42

26d ago21:42

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Labor historian Joe McCartin on the labor connection to National Rifle Association v. Vullo. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Remembering ILWU leader Harry Bridges. Read more: New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be …

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The IWW, the Red Scare, and Lessons on Resisting Repression Today

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On today’s episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we sit down with labor historian Peter Cole, who speaks on how the state in the midst of World War I, used a variety of tactics, which came to be known as the ‘Red Scare,’ to attack and smash the ascendant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an anti-capitalist labor union organized around syndic…

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

1d 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

1d 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

3d 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

3d 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

5d 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

8d 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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OVERTIME: This Politician Lied About a Trump-Era Alabama Plant Closure to Attack the UAW - TVLR 4/13/24 1:32:43

8d 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

10d 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

10d 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

12d 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

12d 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

12d 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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PDX Jail Support: Interview and Audiozine 1:13:30

14d ago1:13:30

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This is Sprout and this is Charyan, and we are the hosts of Molotov Now!, on The Channel Zero Podcast Network, thank you for joining us on this episode of the podcast. If you like what we do here and want to support it, you can do that by going to linktr.ee/al1312 and clicking donate, or scrolling to the bottom for Patreon. Today on the podcast we …

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OT Ep 69 PREVIEW: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 2 18:33

15d ago18:33

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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. 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. …

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OVERTIME: Previewing Contract Negotiations Between UAW and Daimler, and Railworkers and Rail Carriers - TVLR 4/6/24 1:28:22

15d ago1:28:22

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In OVERTIME, we'll talk to rail workers about the upcoming negotiations with the carriers and the need for coordinated bargaining. ✦ 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 work…

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Ep 202 - Our Invincible Solidarity 1:31:49

17d ago1:31:49

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We 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…

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A Socialist Labor Lawyer is Taking Steven Crowder to Court (the NLRB) - TVLR 4/6/24 1:29:50

17d ago1:29:50

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We'll bring you some more updates from the Alabama legislature - the session will end soon, so its a time game now. Matt Bruenig joins to talk about his case against Steven Crowder at the NLRB. ✦ 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 abo…

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Trumka remembers Pittston 34:20

20d ago34:20

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On the 35th anniversary of the Pittston Coal strike, we revisit our 2019 interview with Richard Trumka about the historic strike. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Upper Big Branch mine disaster. 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.…

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OT Ep 68 Preview: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Pt 1 20:31

22d ago20:31

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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. 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 …

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OVERTIME: The Toll of Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse in Baltimore on Working People - TVLR 3/30/24 2:03:42

22d ago2:03:42

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In OVERTIME Max Alvarez joins to talk about what the media isn't with respect to the bridge collapse in Baltimore. ✦ 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 a…

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Ep 201 - Finished in Finland? 1:33:45

24d ago1:33:45

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After 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 …

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Alabama Therapist Speaks Out Against Bill Attacking the Profession - TVLR 3/30/24 1:29:42

24d ago1:29:42

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We have some updates from the legislature this week, more bad bills unfortunately, but at least one good bill you should support! In OVERTIME Max Alvarez joins to talk about what the media isn't with respect to the bridge collapse in Baltimore. ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for j…

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UNLOCKED Overtime Episode 60 - Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 1 1:27:54

29d ago1:27:54

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Episode 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 rec…

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Betty Friedan’s Labor Roots 33:57

29d ago33:57

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Rachel Shteir shares how Betty Friedan’s early experience as a labor reporter for the Federated Press informed her later work as a famed women’s rights activist, author of The Feminine Mystique, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Although Friedan’s activism shaped the American women’s movement in the latter half of the 20th cent…

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OVERTIME: How the CIO Answered the "Race Question" Set the Stage for Labor's Defeat - TVLR 3/23/24 1:31:52

30d ago1:31:52

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In OVERTIME we're talking to folks from Haymarket Books original podcast series on the CIO: Fragile Juggernaut, AND MORE ✦ 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 Ala…

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Ep 200 - Episode 2000 1:28:38

1M ago1:28:38

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200 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 fishin…

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UAW Leader on a Ceasefire in Palestine and Why Peace is a Labor Issue - TVLR 3/23/24 1:29:44

1M ago1:29:44

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UAW Region Director Brandon Mancilla joins to talk about why peace is a labor issue. Several updates from the Alabama legislature as well (mostly bad). ✦ 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 …

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“Changing Lives, Changing L.A.” 31:55

1M ago31:55

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Today’s show comes to us from Re:Work, a woman-led radio show and podcast from the UCLA Labor Center, spotlighting the voices of workers, immigrants, and people of color. “Changing Lives, Changing L.A.” is a play created from transcripts from the UNITE HERE Local 11 Oral History Project and originally performed before a live audience at Loyola Mary…

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Overtime Episode 67 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 8 18:18

1M ago18:18

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Episode 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. …

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OVERTIME: Ben Shapiro Wants You to Labor for a Capitalist Forever, and Unions Push for a Shorter Workweek - TVLR 3/16/24 1:35:44

1M ago1:35:44

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In OVERTIME, McKenna Schueler will be giving us a debrief on what happened with Florida's legislative session. We'll also be taking a look at Ben Shapiro's attack on the concept of retirement, AND MORE ✦ ABOUT ✦ The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating f…

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This Is America #195: Friends of Aaron Bushnell Speak, Deep Dive on Situation in Haiti 1:50:56

1M ago1:50:56

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Ep 199 - Boycott Medieval Times 1:45:55

1M ago1:45:55

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For 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 repress…

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We Have To Talk About Space Camp - TVLR 3/16/24 1:29:55

1M ago1:29:55

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Weirdos are mad about a transgender person existing (and that's it), so we have to talk about it. Adam has some more thoughts on education in the wake of the passage of "school choice." ✦ 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 t…

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B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman 44:26

1M ago44:26

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From On The Line, the story of Diana Kilmury, the bold and fearless truck driver who took on both sexist attitudes on the job and a corrupt union. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Big Bill Haywood Talks General Strike. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at Labo…

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Overtime Episode 66 Preview: Women in the US Labor Movement - Pt 7 15:49

1M ago15:49

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Episode 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 …

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