It’s a jam packed episode this week, everyone’s excited for the main story but we’ve got a lot to talk about in the labor world first. After hitting a few quick updates to some ongoing stories, we discuss the end of the Sacramento teachers’ strike, where a new tentative agreement has won raises without cuts to healthcare. Next, we cover some of the recent news in organizing in the games industry, with the ABK Workers Alliance winning covid protections with the threat of a walkout, support for unions on the increase in the industry, and Capcom raising salaries to try and head off employee organizing. Then we do a whirlwind tour of recent organizing victories by student workers at Wesleyan, New Mexico State, Clark University, and Dartmouth. Amazon wasn’t the only major win last Friday, as Starbucks’ flagship Roastery voted to unionize in the biggest single win of the Starbucks Workers United movement so far. Finally, while the vote is too close to call in Bessemer, Chris Smalls and the Amazon Labor Union pulled off an absolutely historic victory to form the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. We discuss the election, the background to the drive, and what lessons we can learn from the incredible worker-organizers in the ALU and how they can be applied more broadly to re-invigorate the labor movement.
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Ep 61 - Iran Oil Strike Interview
Overtime Episode 3 - The Nature of the State Pt 1 PREVIEW
EP 60 - Let Public Workers Strike
EP 59 - Scab Bullies
EP 58 - Doughnut Workers United Interview
EP 57 - We See This All The Time feat. @laborkyle
EP 56 - Fast Food Bank
EP 55 - Convenience Store Panopticon
EP 54 - Evil Foods Interview
EP 53 - Use Your Collective Power
Overtime Episode 2 PREVIEW - AFL-CIA
EP 52 - "Political" Unions
EP 51 - End School Privatization
EP 50 - Labor Peace Is Not In Our Interest
EP 49 - Overwork Exacerbates Death
Overtime Episode 1 PREVIEW - Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
EP 48 - Strike Breaking Soldier Scabs w/ Ethan (Invent the Future/Red Game Table)
EP 47 PREVIEW - Breakin' The Law
EP 46 - This Week's Dailies
EP 45 PREVIEW - Third Amendment Rights
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