We Rise Fighting - Labor Podcast

No introductory music or anything in this episode. This is our contribution to the discussion on the conflictt between Israel and Palestine.

This is a special episode where we interview working-class/UAW organizer, Frank Hammer. This episode is rich in labor history, theory, and lessons for today's social movement unionism. We talk about today's UAW strike, international solidarity, the Women's Emergency Brigades, building a united front, UAW President Shawn Fain, and much more! Lots of labor lessons, experience, and substance in this...

We Rise Fighting was one of the the groups organizing the Sept 30th Worker & Community Summit in Neehan Wisconsin. The point of the summit was to gather labor and community groups to discuss things like: strike support, solidarity, organizing unions in the workplace, workplace stories about standing up to corporate greed, etc. Bryan reports back from the Summit.

Update and details on the Worker & Community Summit taking place Sept 30th in Neenah, Wisconsin. Update on the United Auto Workers strike as well as an interview with a striker in Denver. Also: Ric's encounter with Congresswoman Diana DeGette who along with Perlmutter, Neguse, and Crow (in CO) voted to crush the railway strike last year. Altogether, 211 Democrats voted in favor of crushing the...

-UAW on strike against the Big 3 Automakers. -Information on the Worker & Community Summit in Neenah, WI, Sept 30th, 2023.

This week we offer details on the Worker/Community Summit taking place in Neenah, WI and interview Justine, a young worker from Madison who recently helped organize a union with the Communications Workers of America.

Reflections on Labor Day as well as news updates on the United Auto Workers negotiations, Teamsters Local 662, Kaiser Permanente workers in Colorado, American Airlines, and Anderson Economic Group.

Mercury Cafe workers in Denver, Graduate Employees Organization Local 3550 contract ratification, Trader Joe's United, Teamsters & UPS, Teamsters Local 662, Labor Day events in Wisconsin, potential United Autoworkers strike, March in Milwaukee, Anderson Economic Group, OPEIU. Correction : at a certain point in the program I [Ric] attribute the "$2 billion per day" figure to the Anderson Econom...

Labor news updates on the Teamsters, Starbucks workers and the Republican National Convention. Also, when we hear stuff like "the strike will cost the economy $2 billion per day", where do those numbers actually come from? Who creates those numbers and how? Should we believe them?

Updates on the Teamsters, United Auto Workers, the Republican National Convention, the SAG AFTRA strike and Starbucks workers. We also revisit the wild world of “ a strike would cost the economy $X billion dollars per day ”.

Teamsters, Amazon workers in Britain, Starbucks workers, the RNC, Laborfest, the Tampa 5 and an update on the generally growing strike activity within the US labor movement. *Correction: at one point Ric is reading strike statistics from Jeremy Brecher's book "Strike" and says "1994" (with conviction!) instead of "1944".

Recent labor new from Teamsters union, UPS, McDonalds workers, the RNC, the Graduate Employees Organization Local 3550 in Ann Arbor, SAF-AFTRA strike, Laborfest, OPEIU and more!

Conspiracy theories vs. Marxian economic/labor theory. -Common characteristics and flaws in conspiracy theories. -Marxism as a systemic critique of capitalism rooted in the material dialectic.

Labor news updates on: Teamsters & UPS, Graduate Employees Organization (Univ of Mich) strike update, UNITE HERE hotel workers strike in California, the struggles in France and Palestine, and the Starbucks workers strike. This show begins with a full-length recording of Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass' piece "What to the slave is the fourth of July?".

IBEW coffee workers contract in Milwaukee, Teamsters & UPS, IATSE, United Electrical Workers (UE) organizing academic workers, SoCal Hotel Workers strike authorization, journalists strike against Gannett, updates from United Kingdom, National Day of Outrage in North Carolina, National March to Protect Trans Youth in Florida.

This week's labor news: OPEIU strike update, Supreme Court decision concerning an employer's ability to sue unions, United Airlines pilots, Hollywood workers struggles, organizing at Trader Joe's, the Tampa 5, protests against Ron Desantis and much more...

This week's labor news inlcuding: new from Cambodia, Great Britain, the Teamsters and UPS, the Writers Guild Strike, the OPEIU strike in Wisconsin, and the doctor’s strike in NY.

This week's labor news: OPEIU/Madison Strike, SAG AFTRA strike authorization, Teamsters & UPS, FedEx pilots strike authorization, Starbucks Workers United, Republian National Convention 2024, Rutgers University contract vote, University of Michigan fabricating grades for the students of striking graduate instructors/GEO 3550.

This week's labor news includes: Southwest Airlines Pilot strike authorization, German rail union cancels planned two-day strike, brief GEO 3550 and Oakland School district strike updates, Writers Guild Strike, Rutgers strike. In this episode we interview Steve Babson, author of “ Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy ”. Now retired, Steve Babson worked as an instructor a...

Part 1: Brief updates on strikes at Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Oakland School District, and Writers Guild. Also a brief update on UPS/Teamsters negotiation. Part 2: Interview with Kathryn Bartlett-Mulvihill, president of OPEIU Local 39 in Madison, WI. The local recently authorized a strike vote against one of the largest employers in Madison.

Recap and highlights of the shows we've done and what we've reported on since last Internaional Workers Day. Labor news briefs at the end.

The US is experiencing a wave of strikes and organizing activity in higher education. Our podcast has been following the strikes at Rutgers University and the University of Michgan for a couple of months so we decided to reach out to the unions to get updates/info directly from the membership. Both unions have been on strike at the same time and they both represent workers employed by public acade...

Labor news including: Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Teamsters/UPS, Railroad Workers United, Poor Peoples' Campaign, Nigerian and German airport workers, Oakland teachers, rally in Madison, May Day, San Antonio, OPEIU and more!

Labor news: Teamsters, Coca-Cola workers in Philly, news and analysis from Wisconsin, sanitation workers in Memphis, strikes at Rutgers University and University of Michigan, Sysco workers, International Workers day and UPS...

Labor news for March 2, 2023. Rutgers University, SEIU press releases, sourdough workers, Bay Area police union leader allegedly smuggling fentanyl, University of Michigan, Michigan Right to Work repealed, Florida, Germany, France, Wisconsin, Starbucks, and more.