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Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich

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Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.

Graham is running for the role of Communications Officer for the IWW and explains his viewpoints on the need for internally focused communications that are member-driven, and how and when it's most effective to utilize external communications to meet union needs.

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EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?

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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 to revitalize the labor movement, and we discuss whether popular education models such as EWOC are suited for the task.

Also discussed are the prospects for advancing syndicalism and its ability to organize millions of workers, and the role mainstream unions can or should have in popular education initiatives.

Read the articles written by Dirnbach on EWOC at https://workerorganizing.org/millions-of-workers-want-a-union-ewoc-shows-how-to-help-2382/

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Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan Weir

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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 sit back and admire somebody else."

Our conversation focuses on Stan Weir's critique of "business unionism," guided by his confidence in the capacity of workers organizing their own independent and radical unions. Weir provides a corrective to the story of the CIO where he highlights how the CIO was formed by rank and file workers and then was pushed into bureaucratic forms by labor officialdom. Weir also challenges the romanticized historiography of union leaders like Walter Reuther and Harry Bridges, pointing to their methods of suppressing rank and file militancy.

From the book jacket, "Blue-collar intellectual and activist, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Singlejack Solidarity offers a rare look at life and social relations as seen from the factory, dockside, and the shop floor."

Get the book at https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/singlejack-solidarity