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E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler
🕑 Added 2024-07-10 10:00:13 +0000 UTCAudio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler
The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.
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Song: Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
Comments
Gray
Thanks so much!
The Antifada
i went through and tried to boost it as much as possible. hope it's slighty better now!
Kevin
Great interview. If only there were a big tent anticapitalist union who’s premise was that the NLRB defanged the unions and we should organize in the old ways…
Isaac Suárez
Great discussion- great points (audio could be better but I like the table thumping when Butler was speaking up for baristas.) Keep it up!
Jeannette
Yes, great conversation but a frustrating listen. Even with my noise-cancelling headphones. Guests, we love you, please hold the microphone closer to your faces.
Gray
This is such an important conversation. I don't know if it's possible to fix Gregory's audio toward the end of the episode, but I could only hear about half of what he was saying. I would definitely listen again if it was fixed.
