We start this week’s episode with a discussion of how unions can play a major role in fighting for workers’ right to reproductive healthcare in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting abortion rights. Then we start the episode proper with a follow-up with the Indiana University grad workers, where despite winning overwhelming support from faculty, the administration is digging in and refusing to recognize the union. Then we have some on the ground labor reporting from Dan, who discusses a local strike of Teamsters at DHL in Pawtucket, RI, where workers are fighting for healthcare and a living wage. Next, over 4000 workers in one of the largest platinum mines in the world in South Africa have gone on strike to protest horrible wages paid to contract workers. Also this week, workers in Maine filed for the first union in the country at a Chipotle and are fighting against understaffing and overwork leading to unsanitary conditions. Train drivers in New Jersey delivered a master class in a well-timed industrial action when they staged a sickout the Friday evening of Juneteenth weekend in protest of not receiving holiday pay. The big story this week is obviously the massive rail strike in England, where 40,000 workers shut down the rails for three days to protest the government’s plan to slash thousands of jobs, destroy pensions, and enforce a pay cut during record inflation. Finally, as usual, we close with our update on the Starbucks Workers United movement as it continues to rack up wins.
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Ep 119 – No More Pay Cuts
Overtime Episode 19 PREVIEW - US Textile Strikes - Pt 2
Ep 118 – Close the Concentration Camps
Overtime Episode 18 PREVIEW - US Textile Strikes - Pt 1
Ep 117 – Breaking Free From the Capitalist TRAP
Why Rank and File? Pt 3 PREVIEW
Ep 116 – No Job is Worth Your Life
UNLOCKED - CAUSE: Organizing Amazon in North Carolina
Ep 115 – Waging the Class War
PREVIEW - CAUSE: Organizing Amazon in North Carolina
Ep 114 - Your Boss is Not Your Friend
UNLOCKED - Organizing Amazon in Kentucky: An Interview
Ep 113 – People’s Palace Pool Party
PREVIEW - Organizing Amazon in Kentucky: An Interview
Ep 112 – Squire Solidarity
Shop Floor Discussion 5 PREVIEW – Microsoft Union Neutrality Agreement
Ep 110 – AppleCORE Wins at the Apple Store
Ep 109 – Without Workers, Nothing Moves
Overtime Episode 17 PREVIEW - AFL-CIA Pt 2 - El Golpe
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