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| John Logan
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| Assessing the defeat for workers union at Amazon Alabama
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| Labor historian John Logan assesses the historic unionization drive against Amazon at the new Bessemer Alabama warehouse -- and processes the outcome: a no vote for the Retail Workers union. Front line workers took on the second largest, notoriously anti-union company in the US during a pandemic – and won widespread sympathy and media coverage -- but failed to win enough votes to get union recognition. With so much riding on this struggle, we ask what was achieved, and what the defeat means for organizing in the US, where labor law is stacked in favor of the employers. We get John Logan's perspective on the larger significance of this drive as well as the nitty gritty of the obstacles faced every step of the way.
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Sunday, April 11, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley, Veena Dubal
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| Unionization Count at Amazon, AL; Prop. 22 goes national
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Lauren Gurley at Vice.com’s Motherboard has covered the unionization drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer for more than a year. Voting ended March 29 and counting is currently underway. If they win the vote, they will become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. We hear about Amazon's pee scandal and the anti-union campaign Amazon has mounted against the RWSDU. All eyes are on this titanic labor struggle in the anti-union south because it has enormous potential for the labor movement far beyond Alabama, and for that reason the battle has been fierce.
Veena Dubal has written widely about the exploitative condition of precarious platform workers, particularly in the ride-share companies. She says that the passage of Prop 22 in California has emboldened these companies to go national, and she cautions that Prop 22 poses extreme danger to workers everywhere, and will exacerbate enormously the hyper-inequality we are already experiencing. Organizing will be key.
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Sunday, April 4, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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Sunday, March 28, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Mike Goldfield, Gabriel Winant
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| Alabama Amazon Union Drive; Make Care Jobs Good Jobs
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Michael Goldfield, author of "The Southern Key," discusses the unionization drive underway at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer Alabama. Mike’s book analyzed the history of efforts to unionize the South in the 1930s and 40s, and that history is the context for the struggle to unionize Amazon today, in the same area as the fight that failed in the 1940s. This drive is widely recognized as pivotally important, and is being extensively covered. If successful, this will become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country and will also mark one of the biggest union victories in the South in decades, potentially galvanizing the labor movement and inspiring workers far beyond Alabama.
Gabriel Winant, author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" on the expanding care economy. His March 18 op-ed in the NYT, "Manufacturing Isn’t Coming Back, Let’s Improve These Jobs Instead” is about the underpaid and overworked health care workers whose jobs are critical to our society. Gabe looks at how the care industry arose in Pittsburg on the ruins of the industrial economy, and how this sector dominates employment across American cities – and is the face of the 21st C workforce. We get his insights on how to translate the recognition of the essential nature of the work they do caring for society -- into getting this sector paid their economic value, which requires more political power.
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Matt Karp, Emil Draitser
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| American Rescue Plan, Soviet Satire
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Matt Karp discusses President Biden’s stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan that was just passed by the Senate and is touted by many as a paradigm change. Matt says an injection of much needed cash isn’t the same thing as empowering workers or creating a constituency for change. We get him to explain.
Emil Draitser on his "In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir." He recounts how he could become a journalist in the Soviet Union and why the detour into satire was the best path. We also talk about the new Oscar nominated Andrei Konchalovsky film “Dear Comrades!” about an important strike and massacre in Novocherkassk in southern Russia in 1962. Everything about that strike and the response from the authorities gives us insight into the nature of the Soviet Union.
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Sunday, March 14, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:15 |
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Sunday, March 7, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Sharon Rudahl
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| Paul Robeson
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| Sharon Rudahl just published "Ballad of an American," A Graphic Biography of artist–activist Paul Robeson, edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware, with Sharon Rudahl doing the art and the text. Robeson, internationally famous during his lifetime for his athletic achievements, his booming baritone voice and his many film and stage roles, was identified with the American Communist Party and that brought him into conflict with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI and HUAC. Sharon handled Robeson's complex biography with political sophistication and subtlety, no easy task. She brings to life the moving story of this incredibly talented, courageous and committed American who never stopped fighting for universal emancipation.
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Sunday, February 14, 2021 10:00 am | 0:30:07 |
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