UAW Strike Update: More Auto Plants to Join 'Stand-Up' Strike (TRNN livestream w/ Martha Grevatt & Auston Gore)
The United Auto Workers are striking against all of the Big Three automakers at once for the first time in the union's history. The UAW is employing a novel "stand-up strike" strategy: rather than hav...
21 Sep 202357min
The UAW Is Ready to Fight (w/ Marcelina Pedraza, Torice Sawyer, & Nick Livick)
After the high-stakes contract fight between the Teamsters and UPS, the eyes of labor are now on the contract negotiations currently taking place between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto...
11 Sep 20231h 17min
One Fair Wage (w/ Tabina Gipson)
At the federal level today, the subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $2.13 an hour. That is, frankly, a disgrace. "A direct legacy of slavery," the One Fair Wage campaign notes, "the submi...
6 Sep 202324min
**Labor & the Long Road to Reunification in Korea (w/ Ju-Hyun Park)** PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Within the past two years, South Korea has seen major labor actions, including a general strike in October of 2021, and major crackdowns on organized labor, including the national intelligence agency ...
28 Aug 20231h 11min
Save WVU (w/ Leslie Wilber, Morgan King, & Jessie Wilkerson)
The world of higher education has been in shock this past week after West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee announced plans to dramatically cut academic programs and jobs in the coming year....
20 Aug 20231h 1min
Ana Jakopič
Ana Jakopič is a lawyer, organizer, and trade union leader in Slovenia. We talk to Ana about the different kinds of workers she organizes with on a daily basis, the struggles working people across Slo...
11 Aug 20231h 27min
Khali Jama
"I've never been an organizer," Khali Jama says, "but I've always fought." As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Jama has always had to fight for the life she...
5 Aug 20231h 26min
What—and Who—Caused the Train Derailment in East Palestine? (w/ Jason Cox)
The Norfolk Southern train derailment and "controlled release" of toxic vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio, was an avoidable catastrophe. Long before the train cars crashed on Feb. 3 and residents...
30 Juli 202348min
