Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press

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Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials and what organized labor should and shouldn't expect from a Biden administration. As made clear in this interview- not much without a fight.

We also dig into the details of the PRO Act, the types of unions the working class wants and needs, and how the primary means for workers to win progressive legislation is to form militant unions and engage in class struggle.

This interview follows an article from Alex Press that you can read at https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/joe-biden-labor-unions-afl-cio-kamala-harris

Music from In The Red Records: Fuzz- Rat Race

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. Megan, John, and Max discuss in detail the tactics of No Evil Foods union busting, including a marathon series of 14 hours of captive audience meetings, illegal firings, and censorship, and how workers should prepare for aggressive anti-union campaigns conducted by bosses.

We also delved into a conversation about "solidarity unionism" and the IWW as a viable alternative to conventional union recognition campaigns.

This episode includes never before heard leaked audio from captive audience meetings employees were forced to attend by owners of No Evil Foods!

Despite being a "progressive" company producing vegan meat alternatives and naming their products in socialist language like "comrade cluck," No Evil Foods prioritizes profit over people and demonstrates a no-holds-barred approach to union busting.

Workers have compiled an extensive catalog of information, interviews, and resources for the union busting that took place housed at the website https://www.moevilfoods.com/

Additional resources mentioned in the show:

Confessions of a Union Buster by Martin Jay Levitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-0gxca-VxM

Music (thanks John Dwyer and In The Red Records)

Thee Oh Sees: Adult Acid

The Spits- Shitty World

Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese

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Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese are the editors of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy published by Pluto Press. Order a copy at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/

With cutting-edge analysis, this book looks at the many facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggle, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more.

Mentioned in the talk is a panel event with the editors from November, when this episode was recorded, you've missed that discussion but you can watch the video of it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYeH0jLmHFM

Join the fight against Amazon by connecting with Amazonians United at www.amazoniansunited.org/ and read an interview with the workers at www.plutobooks.com/blog/amazon-man…through-stress/

Learn more about forms of solidarity work from this piece at Jacobin, Amazon Workers Desperately Need an Insurgent Union Campaign jacobinmag.com/2020/04/amazon-wo…union-coronavirus

Music: Fresh and Onlys- I'm a Thief