Beste Stoppage podcaster (2024)

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Ep 235 - Delivering Worker Resistance 1:36:43

9h ago1:36:43

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We've got a jam packed episode, as workers all around the world are on the move. First we've got headlines covering stories in Germany, South Korea, California and Florida. For our first main story, workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia filed to unionize this week, in another major effort to push back against the exploitation of the Bezos empire…

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Interview: Build a Fighting NALC PREVIEW 15:24

4d ago15:24

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If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We are joined by C Moline a coordinating committee member of Build a Fighting NALC to talk about the many issues with the current TA that was presented to city postal workers by NALC national. We also go over working conditions f…

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Ep 234 - Northern Exposure 1:33:38

7d ago1:33:38

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After updates on striking hotel workers, new UAW academic organizing, city workers in Philly and avian flu in dairy workers, we dive into our main stories. Michigan nurses won a massive union election this week as nearly 10,000 voted to join the Teamsters. The Canadian government stepped in on the side of the shipping companies this week and forced…

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Ep 233 - Same Threats as Yesterday 1:36:37

14d ago1:36:37

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It's impossible to start this week without discussing the fallout from the big election, so we start our main stories with a roundup of statements from union leaders in response to the new era of organizing. Next, we hear from dining workers at Clarkson University on their recent victory in securing a strong contract. Teachers in three towns in Mas…

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Ep 232 - Lockout Lessons 1:19:18

21d ago1:19:18

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We've got headlines this week from NYC, Boston, Minneapolis, the island of Guadeloupe, and also PBS. Pepsi recently shocked workers in Chicago when they abruptly closed the region's only bottling plant with no notice. A new report shows the shocking worker death toll of US-ally Saudi Arabia's quixotic NEOM project. Philadelphia transit workers vote…

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Unlocked Interview: Blue-Collar Empire by Jeff Schuhrke 1:33:38

23d ago1:33:38

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We are joined by Jeff Schuhrke, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Empire State University to discuss his new book Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade. This incredible book documents the sordid collaboration between the highest levels of the AFL and the CIA, how to understand this history of labor of…

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Ep 231 - No Diet COLA! 1:16:25

28d ago1:16:25

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We start this week with a quick check-in on rideshare drivers in NYC, hotel workers in Boston, and nurses in North Carolina and Michigan. For our first major story, letter carriers across the country in the NALC are organizing a national vote no campaign in response to a concessionary contract. We continue coverage of workers under attack for speak…

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Interview: Blue-Collar Empire by Jeff Schuhrke PREVIEW 22:22

1M ago22:22

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We are joined by Jeff Schuhrke, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Empire State University to discuss his new book Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade. This incredible book documents the sordid collaboration between the highest levels of the AFL and the CIA, how to understand this history of labor of…

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Ep 230 - Winning at Walmart 1:36:42

1M ago1:36:42

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After our headlines we discuss a new piece from Workday Magazine this week covering the progress in growing the coalition for a May Day 2028 general strike. Workers at GE Appliances are gearing up for a strike after years of lost benefits and stagnant wages since new owners Haier bought the company. More companies are making use of AI, effective or…

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Ep 229 - Goodwill Union Hunting 1:33:06

1M ago1:33:06

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Tell Goodwill to Stop Union Busting: https://goodwillcolorado.org/about-us/contact-us/ We start this week with updates from academic workers, retail workers, nonprofit workers, and several organizing drives by the Teamsters. Workers in Florida faced nightmare conditions this week after a second hurricane slammed into the already reeling region. Sam…

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OT Ep 77: Anti-Union Talking Points Pt1 PREVIEW 16:19

2M ago16:19

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If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. In this episode we go over a ton of classic anti-union talking points and tear them apart. From tired points like "unions are a business" to unions "protecting lazy workers", in this first episode in the series we focus on the mo…

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Ep 228 - One Year of Resistance 1:38:31

2M ago1:38:31

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After commemorating one year of the US-Israeli genocide in Palestine, we discuss the response from workers in Spain, who launched a one day nationwide strike demanding an end to all relations with Israel. After following up on several UAW stories, the Teamsters at Amazon, and striking hotel workers, we have an update on the Boeing strike as it move…

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Ep 227 - "We'll Cripple You" 1:34:51

2M ago1:34:51

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This week we start with messages of solidarity to workers across the South affected by Hurricane Helene, and workers across Lebanon affected by the horrific expansion of US-Israeli attacks. We also follow up with Unite Here hotel workers, The Bird Union's new contract, and the unsafe tobacco factories of NYC. Our first story this week examines the …

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Ep 226 - World Class Workers 1:26:58

2M ago1:26:58

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Support Striking ILWU Local 6 Workers: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-local-6-workers-in-their-fight-for-fair-wages We start this week's episode with follow-ups at the University of Maine, Boston hotels, Trader Joe's in Manhattan, Starbucks in Ithaca, and Wonderful Nurseries in California. We follow up on the second week of the strike by over 3…

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Interview: Judy Gearhart of Labor Link 54:26

2M ago54:26

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We are joined by Judy Gearhart to talk about her podcast Labor Link. On her show she interviews workers and worker advocates in many highly exploited industries in Southeast and Southern Asia. From garment workers in Bangladesh to migrant fishers in Thailand appalling working conditions and forms of modern slavery are highly present, and she talks …

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Ep 225 - Nationalize Boeing! 1:37:23

2M ago1:37:23

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Legal Fund of Michigan Students for Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/um-palestine-legalfund Lina's back and there's so much news! We discuss repression of worker organizing at the SPLC, the Noguchi Museum, and Air Canada in our headlines segment, as well as following up on the strike by 17,000 CWA workers at AT&T. As the school year begins, w…

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Ep 224 - The Wage Theft Industry 1:32:15

3M ago1:32:15

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We start with updates on The Bird Union, Unite Here hotel workers, the UAW, and AT&T workers on strike across the South. Following our headlines, we discuss the recent firing of rail engineer, and popular commentator, Gareth Dennis, in response to (true) statements he made about safety concerns. Thousands of rideshare drivers and supporters rallied…

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Ep 223 - Labor Day Means Strike! 1:30:25

3M ago1:30:25

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It's Labor Day, and that can only mean workers standing up for our rights on the job. We begin this week with the launch of this weekend's national hotel strike by workers in Unite Here. After some quick stories on workers fighting for Palestine, the massive surge in unionization in academia, and more warehouse organizing by the Teamsters, we get i…

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Ep 222 - North of the Border 1:35:51

3M ago1:35:51

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UAW GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-uaw-brother-antonio-gastons-family-after-tragedy AT&T Petition: https://www.cwa.org/attse-support Another news packed week starts with some follow up on the Teamsters negotiations with Costco, the UAW's fight to hold Stellantis to the contract, and more workers fighting for heat protections. Our firs…

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Ep 221 - Cornell Stands Up! 1:34:50

3M ago1:34:50

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We start this week's episode with some quick check ins on: recent organizing wins by the Teamsters, a new strike at Samsung, ULPs filed against Donald Trump by the UAW, a new CEO at Starbucks, and flight attendants at Alaska Airlines fighting for a record contract. We also follow up on the long haul strike by workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,…

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OT Ep 76 Preview: Cannabis and Labor Pt 4 17:11

3M ago17:11

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If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. In this installment of “The Weed Series,” the gang discusses the conditions of the cannabis industry in New Mexico and Arizona. We cover workers who organized the first agricultural cannabis union in New Mexico, and Arizona worke…

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Ep 220 - Beat the Heat: Organize! 1:37:46

4M ago1:37:46

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Another jam packed week of labor news! We start this week with follow-ups on workers at Samsung, REI, and Apple. We also follow up on the impact of Florida politicians' attempts to destroy the state's public unions, and how that has been devastating for academic workers. Reporters from the LA Times have documented how public pensions won through un…

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Ep 219 - Working Below Subsistence 1:36:40

4M ago1:36:40

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We start this week with workers advancing the struggle for solidarity with Palestine in the UE and AFT, along with international stories from Brazil and The Netherlands. Also this week, workers ratified major new contracts at Amtrak and Disneyland, and new unions were formed at Prism Reports and The Frick Museum. In our first major story, the ALU D…

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OT Ep 75 Preview: Cannabis and Labor Pt 3 16:27

4M ago16:27

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If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. In this installment of “The Weed Series,” the gang discusses New York. We cover workers in Syracuse who unionized with RWDSU/UFCW 338, the state of employee protections in New York for lawful cannabis users, the multifaceted disa…

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Ep 218 - Unions Against Imperialism 1:35:36

4M ago1:35:36

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We've got an especially internationalist show this week. After our headlines we start our main stories with some of the recent industrial action taken by French workers ahead of and during the ongoing Olympic Games. Next we discuss the mass protest last week against the speech by genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC, including…

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