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Episode Description
Air Date: 4-1-26
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- Ch. 1 - How to boycott better
- Ch. 2 - Why REI workers have voted to boycott the upcoming May sale and how you can help
- Ch. 3 - Why meatpacking workers are striking in Colorado
- Ch. 4 - Comparing the US labor movement with the Canadian labor movement
- Ch. 5 - Strengthening, and expanding the vision for, today's labor movement
- SOLVED! BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only!): How politics killed the once transformational National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Leave us a message on our new system!
REFERENCES
Your Individual Boycotts Aren't Helping - Jacobin
REI Workers Threaten Boycott Ahead Of Retailer's Most Crucial Sale Of The Year - Huffington Post
Thousands of Colorado Meatpacking Workers Are on Strike - Jacobin
From Class to Special Interest - Jacobin (from 2016)
Today's Labor Movement Needs a Bigger Vision - Labor Notes
BACKSTAGE
- Requiem for the Wagner Act - The American Prospect
EXTRAS:
Best of the Left #1780 - Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped
MayDayStrong.org - May 1st - No Work. No School. No Shopping.
SOLVED! #36 - Bribery Jazz: Corruption is the Water We Swim In
'No Flock, No ICE': Student protest demands removal of Flock surveillance at UW
Anti-ICE protests Friday at Berkeley schools and a Hilton hotel in the Southside neighborhood
SUPPORT REI WORKERS:
@REIUnion (Instagram)
REI Co-Op Members: Vote to Boycott
SUPPORT MEATPACKING WORKERS:
Greeley Meatpacking Workers (UFCW Local 7R) Strike Fund
UFCW Local 7R (Greeley Meatpacking Workers) Union Facebook page with updates
TAKE ACTION:
MayDayStrong.org - May 1st - No Work. No School. No Shopping.