Updated: Jun 16
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation."
Erik Baker, an American historian, associate editor at The Drift, and a former UAW staff organizer, joins Laborwave to discuss his article for Jewish Currents, Revaluing the Strike.
You can read the full article at https://jewishcurrents.org/revaluing-the-strike
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.
Dimick makes clear that rather than trying to posit the Act was a gift to labor that the labor movement should be cautious whenever the state seeks to substitute its powers for unions own self-activity.
Our discussion touches on the following articles written by Dimick in Organizing Work and Catalyst Journal.
Counterfeit Liberty- https://catalyst-journal.com/2019/07/counterfeit-liberty
The Wagner Act, Cause and Consequences- https://organizing.work/2022/08/the-wagner-act-causes-and-consequences/
Updated: Jul 11, 2022
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster, former president the Communist Party USA and trade unionist involved in the early IWW and AFL.
We adopt a critical lens discuss Foster's concepts of a "militant minority" and "boring from within" as a strategy for pulling conservative unions to the left. Driedger also explains the reaction and criticism leveled against Foster's ideas when he presented them to the IWW in 1911.
This and more on the latest episode of Laborwave Radio.
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