Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for “social justice unionism” in a post-Janus United States. Workers are increasingly atomized in the US, and the state continues to rollback any investments into the reproductive...
Joe Burns, a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer and the author of Strike Back and Reviving the Strike, joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement. His forthcoming book is...
Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political. Garneau’s provides a necessary corrective over common views amongst “socialists” that work and politics are...
Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast! Graham and I imagine ourselves as two salt shakers, transformed into our alienated selves along with our fellow servants, under the repressive...
Eric Laursen, author of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, joins the show to provide a concrete analysis of the State as opposed to states and compares the modern state to an operating system. As he explains, the State...
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a joint partnership of the DSA and UE. Dirnbach challenges organized labor to train one million workers for...
Gabriel Winant, historian and author of The Next Shift, joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations. Our conversation focuses on worker rebellion, the political failure...
Comrades Luke and Tim join the show to discuss the rank and file critique of business unionism put forward by Stan Weir. Throughout his writings and his life Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not “let people feel that their job...
Re-issue of our conversation with Marianne Garneau discussing her article in Organizing.Work, “You Say You Want a General Strike?” Garneau takes a critical look at general strikes conducted in Europe and argues they have not had the...
Hamilton Nolan joins the show to elaborate on his article “Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging” written for In These Times. Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power. He identifies...