The Labor Notes Podcast
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The Labor Notes Podcast is a new show from the folks who put on the Labor Notes conference every two years.
We’ll talk each week about the strikes, contract campaigns, shop floor actions, reform caucus organizing, and union elections that our staff and rank-and-file workers in the labor movement’s troublemaking wing write about and work on all year round.
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The podcast focuses on labor activism, workers' rights, and environmental justice, with episodes exploring topics like climate action in the workplace, the impact of tariffs on workers, and firsthand accounts of shop floor actions. For example, one episode highlights how workers advocate for a liveable planet by pushing for climate-related demands in their contracts.
The Labor Notes Podcast is a new show from the folks who put on the Labor Notes conference every two years.
We’ll talk each week about the strikes, contract campaigns, shop floor actions, reform caucus organizing, and union elections that our staff and rank-and-file workers in the labor movement’s troublemaking wing write about and work on all year round.
New episodes on Fridays.
It’s often said that unions shouldn’t take up issues that are “divisive” like immigration, and focus instead on bread-and-butter issues members already agree on. We think that’s bad advice! Organizing around social issues like the defense of immigrant workers is an opportunity for open, productive conversations based on mutual respect—and it can mobilize members who feel left behind by their unions.
Ryan Andrews, an English teacher and member of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) put it this way: “Anybody who thinks we have to ignore certain issues or avoid certain political conversations in order to grow the base, they don’t understand what it means to grow the base.”
As Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare report in a collaboration with Workday Magazine, workers across the country are taking up the fight against ICE, and strengthening their unions in the process. Here’s how.
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