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 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

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 but can be a union from the start!

We also talk about strikes, dues checkoff, fighting corporate giants like Starbucks and Amazon, and more.

Check out the article written by Eric Dirnbach and Colette Perold on premajority unionism at https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/

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.

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/