We start this week’s episode following up with Verizon workers, where the company seems to be taking a page from Starbucks’ union busting as they have illegally fired a worker at a store in Washington for organizing. Then we catch up with the striking Finnish healthcare workers, who have ended their strike and are threatening mass resignations in response to threats from the government to make healthcare worker strikes illegal. Also in healthcare, workers staged 24 hour strikes at a nursing home in Saugus, Massachusetts and at healthcare facilities across Northern California last week decrying low wages and unsafe staffing levels. The ALU held a major rally this weekend to bring out support for the workers at the LDJ5 sorting facility who will vote on whether to unionize this week. Teachers in Richmond, Virginia have voted overwhelmingly to unionize for the first time in over 40 years, after a change in law allowing collective bargaining for public workers. University of Chicago Illinois grad students went on strike for the past week to protest poverty wages and lack of protections against discrimination and sexual misconduct. Finally, another week, another huge slate of wins for the Starbucks Workers United movement. This week saw 8 more locations unionized, including the Seattle Roastery, a huge hub just 2.5 miles from Starbucks corporate HQ.
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Ep 69 - Hudson Workers United Interview
Overtime Episode 6 PREVIEW - Saul Alinsky & The Fall of Effective Organizing
Ep 68 - Sweatshop Shutdown
Ep 67 - Investigate Labor Day
Ep 66 - Collectivize Colectivo feat. Ethan (Invent the Future/Red Game Table)
Ep 65 - No Contracts No Snacks!
Ep 64 - Robo-Union Trojan Horse
Overtime Episode 5 - The Nature of The State Pt 3 PREVIEW
Overtime Episode 4 - The Nature Of The State Pt 2 PREVIEW
Ep 63 - No More Overdraft Fees
Ep 62 - OSHA Won't Save Us
Ep 61 - Iran Oil Strike Interview
Overtime Episode 3 - The Nature of the State Pt 1 PREVIEW
EP 60 - Let Public Workers Strike
EP 59 - Scab Bullies
EP 58 - Doughnut Workers United Interview
EP 57 - We See This All The Time feat. @laborkyle
EP 56 - Fast Food Bank
EP 55 - Convenience Store Panopticon
EP 54 - Evil Foods Interview
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