The Labor Notes Podcast
Podcast Description
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.
What grocery workers are organizing for, and the way they’re doing it, can be a model for working class unionism.
In recent years, reform-minded members of the United Food and Commercial Workers—UFCW, one of the largest unions in the U.S.—have ramped up their campaigns to make their union more democratic and responsive to the needs of its 1.3 million members.
These members have organized toward resolutions at the 2023 convention, including to have direct elections of the international union’s top officers.
They sued the international in the spring of 2024 over other union democracy issues, pointing out how the UFCW allocates fewer delegates to larger locals.
And they’re leading more vigorous contract fights and campaigns than we’ve seen in these sectors in decades.
Their fight can tell us a lot about how vital a reform current can be in transforming a union to actually represent its members’ interests, and fight for the working class as whole.
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