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 46 - This Week's Dailies
EP 45 PREVIEW - Third Amendment Rights
EP 44 - BAmazon Deep Dive
EP 43 PREVIEW - Upton Sinclair Ain't Goin' Away
EP 42 - Catching COVID At The Vaccine Plant
EP 41 PREVIEW - Organizing Agricultural Workers feat. Sam Knight
EP 40 - Silk Servitude
EP 39 PREVIEW - Unions In Myanmar
EP 38 - McPinkertons
EP 37 PREVIEW - Modern Day Slavery
EP 36 - Private Intelligence
EP 35 PREVIEW - Teachers Roundup
EP 34 - General Strike In Haiti
EP 33 PREVIEW - Co-op Or Union Power?
EP 32 - Oops! All Follow-ups!
EP 31 PREVIEW - DOLT Without Dues
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