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 is to...
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 powerful impacts...
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 the...
Veteran labor organizer, Elizabeth Laycak, joins the show to discuss how two new workers employed by Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA would initiate a unionization campaign with a strategy to win. We cover mapping and charting, assessments...
Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing and direct unionism. They share stories of how AU emerged, initially through breaking bread and resocializing the...
Marybeth Seitz-Brown, organizer and former rank-and-file member with the NewsGuild of New York, joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and pushing union members to tackle the biggest issues of...
Comrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton. In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli takes a job in the gig economy. He begins pulling cable to link together the new...
MK Lees, contributor and regular editor of Organizing Work, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of “salting” a workplace to boost a union campaign, and the need to refine this practice for optimal impact. Among topics discussed in this...
Tom Wetzel, author of the forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism from AK Press, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody’s rank and file strategy. Our conversation focuses on arguments made by Wetzel in two pieces for...
Comrades Andrea Haverkamp, Nick Fisher, Tim and Joe Clement join Laborwave Radio for another series of Comrades Read! We dig into the “Rank and File Strategy” a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity. We...