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Ep 211 - The Union Makes us Sean w/ Alex Press
🕑 Added 2023-04-26 10:00:06 +0000 UTCWe check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!
Articles by Alex Press:
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesses
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statistics
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/
https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagon
https://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-old
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.html
Song: The Press - Revolution Now!
Comments
The Antifada
several years ago the UBC started a program called 'Rise!' which finds non-union shops with skilled workers in high rise and signs them up at an introductory b-rate. it's like an apprenticeship i think? they go to the hall and get trained up, but the union is getting its ass kicked so hard in high rise that they remain at like 40/hr which is $15 off the package. on top of that there are Project Labor Agreements which are for companies that aren't signed up with the union, but get a temporary pass. these don't always have givebacks in them, but sometimes do. it's not rare to end up on a job and realize you're losing $4 out of the envelope or vacation pay
Baron
When I got into Instagram as a kid, I used to do this thing on friends posts like #hashtagtoomanyhashtags. Good to see the meta-culture of hashes, foods, tweets, and otherwise, is in full swing once again.
Robert Booth
Does the carpenters union have 2 tier contracts? I’m in the carpenters union local 68-L Oakland drywall lathers and we don’t have 2 tier contracts in any of the Northern California carpenters unions that I’m aware of.
Real Person
wow! incredible! bravo!
