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Revaluing the Strike w/ Erik Baker
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political...
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LABORWAVE RADIO
Anti-Capitalist Labor Organizing
Unions
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Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union.
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Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.
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The Long Deep Grudge
Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.
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William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and Strategies
Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing.
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William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination of his Theories and Politics
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster.
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Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich
Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
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On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
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Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]
Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
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Organizing the White Lotus
Liz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
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State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME
Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
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Reviving the Strike
Joe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.
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Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!
Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
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EWOC: 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.
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A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline
Gabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
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Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan Weir
Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."
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You 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.
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Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging
Hamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away
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Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth Laycak
Elizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.
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Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland
Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.
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Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-Brown
Marybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.
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Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK Lees
MK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.
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Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.
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Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File Strategy
We discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.
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Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter Cole
Peter 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
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Talking 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.
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Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press
Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.
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The Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil Foods
Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.
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The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau
The IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.
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Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & Michael
Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."
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A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan
Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.
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Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave
To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
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Ep. 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.
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Ep. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea Haverkamp
Ellen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.
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Ep. 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.
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Comrades Read Together- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
Comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
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Wildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips
You can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.
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Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr
As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.
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Rent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United Corvallis
Two part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.
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May Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah Jaffe
We already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.
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Boots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. King
Even for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.
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Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan
By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.
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Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alex Riccio
Trump’s rise to power represents a battle over utopia where the right-wing has so far proved victorious.
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Graduate 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.
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You Say You Want A General Strike? w/ Marianne Garneau
What precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?
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Abolition Studies Against Academia w/ Eli Meyerhoff & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
Abolitionist university studies positioned against academia.
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State of Unions after Janus with Bill Fletcher, Jr
We spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
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Women's Strike, Reconsidered with Marianne Garneau
We spoke with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work, on why for strikes to be effective they must have specific targets tied to...
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Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union with Shane Burley
We spoke with Shane Burley about his recent piece for Think Progress on BVWU and learned more about how these workers were able to...
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Border Politics, Antifascism, and the Tangled Knot of Oppressions with Hillary Lazar
We spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...
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