PodcastMedia Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham KovichGraham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
PodcastOn The Line w/ Daisy PitkinDaisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
PodcastClass Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
PodcastOrganizing the White LotusLiz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
PodcastState of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCMEBill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
PodcastReviving the StrikeJoe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.
PodcastBeauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
PodcastEWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
PodcastA Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union DeclineGabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
PodcastComrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan WeirStan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."
PodcastYou Say You Want A General Strike? Marianne Garneau discusses her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?" Re-issued with improved audio quality.
PodcastGet Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop BeggingHamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away
PodcastUnionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth LaycakElizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.
PodcastShop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United ChicagolandRuby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.
PodcastUnion Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-BrownMarybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.
PodcastUnion Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK LeesMK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.
PodcastEp. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom WetzelTom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.
PodcastEp. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File StrategyWe discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.
PodcastBen Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter ColePeter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press
PodcastTalking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ the One Big Podcast A collaboration with One Big Podcast discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.
PodcastOrganized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex PressAlex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.
PodcastThe Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil FoodsLaborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.
PodcastThe Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne GarneauThe IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.
PodcastEp. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & MichaelOur conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."
PodcastA Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening PlanUnion demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.
PodcastHighlights from Three Years of LaborwaveTo celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
PodcastEp. 4 Comrades Read Together "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House"Connecting movement histories to fight against fracture, imposing accountability, and hard questions for the IWW and DSA.
PodcastEp. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea HaverkampEllen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.
PodcastEp. 2 Comrades Read Together w/ Nick Driedger: No Shortcuts, But to Where? Driedger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework.
PodcastComrades Read Together- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAleveyComradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
PodcastWildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara PhillipsYou can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.
PodcastPolice, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher JrAs an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.
PodcastRent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United CorvallisTwo part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.
PodcastMay Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah JaffeWe already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.
PodcastBoots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. KingEven for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.
PodcastTreason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod ShanahanBy taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.
PodcastImagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alex RiccioTrump’s rise to power represents a battle over utopia where the right-wing has so far proved victorious.
PodcastGraduate Employee Strike at UO and Fighting for Worker Control w/ Lola Loustaunau The social relations in which we are in need to fundamentally change. The worksite is key not just for better wages but to end exploitation.
PodcastYou Say You Want A General Strike? w/ Marianne GarneauWhat precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?
PodcastAbolition Studies Against Academia w/ Eli Meyerhoff & Zach Schwartz-WeinsteinAbolitionist university studies positioned against academia.
PodcastState of Unions after Janus with Bill Fletcher, JrWe spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
PodcastWomen's Strike, Reconsidered with Marianne GarneauWe spoke with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work, on why for strikes to be effective they must have specific targets tied to...
PodcastLessons from the Burgerville Workers Union with Shane BurleyWe spoke with Shane Burley about his recent piece for Think Progress on BVWU and learned more about how these workers were able to...
PodcastBorder Politics, Antifascism, and the Tangled Knot of Oppressions with Hillary LazarWe spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...