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MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor
“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read...
Nov 15, 2022


Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy
“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal...We held these bad boss contests. Where the first winner was...
Oct 12, 2022


Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography
“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out,...
Oct 4, 2022


Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer
“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about...
Sep 15, 2022


THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain
"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"
Sep 3, 2022


Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast
“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes...
Aug 23, 2022


Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay
"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding th
Aug 19, 2022


West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..
Aug 12, 2022


Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers
The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs
Aug 3, 2022


Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers
The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits....
Aug 2, 2022


Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander
his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri
Jul 18, 2022


Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries - Excerpt 3
Mother Jones is one of my heroes. 
Jun 9, 2022


Jay Naidoo - General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions - Labor Solidarity Podcast
“Apartheid used racial discrimination as an instrument to maintain the cheap labor system. So the core of apartheid was a cheap labor...
May 4, 2022


The Mother of all Evil is Speculation
Excerpt from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps You're all pretty much fucked. They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of...
May 3, 2022


How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media
“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in...
Apr 20, 2022


Organize the Churches and Rejoice with Matt Bernico - Belief Street Faith and Labor
"You can rally around those people and say, 'No more killing of people through the slow crucifixions of low wage work, union busting, and...
Apr 15, 2022


Turning the Tables - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 5
We continue to explore ways in which if advocates and workers themselves are part of the design and control of platforms...
Apr 5, 2022


The Future We Need by Erica Smiley & Sarita Gupta - Harmony of Interest Book Talks
In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could...
Mar 31, 2022


Aung Kyaw, Co-Founder of Thailand's Migrant Worker Rights Network
"When I arrived in Thailand, I was an illegal migrant worker. But even though I work in a factory, I read the news every day. I read...
Mar 28, 2022


The Company You Keep - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 4
An ethical businessperson helps us understand alternatives to the exploitative gig model.  We ask: if we keep humans in the loop, can...
Mar 27, 2022
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