It’s a jam packed episode this week, everyone’s excited for the main story but we’ve got a lot to talk about in the labor world first. After hitting a few quick updates to some ongoing stories, we discuss the end of the Sacramento teachers’ strike, where a new tentative agreement has won raises without cuts to healthcare. Next, we cover some of the recent news in organizing in the games industry, with the ABK Workers Alliance winning covid protections with the threat of a walkout, support for unions on the increase in the industry, and Capcom raising salaries to try and head off employee organizing. Then we do a whirlwind tour of recent organizing victories by student workers at Wesleyan, New Mexico State, Clark University, and Dartmouth. Amazon wasn’t the only major win last Friday, as Starbucks’ flagship Roastery voted to unionize in the biggest single win of the Starbucks Workers United movement so far. Finally, while the vote is too close to call in Bessemer, Chris Smalls and the Amazon Labor Union pulled off an absolutely historic victory to form the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. We discuss the election, the background to the drive, and what lessons we can learn from the incredible worker-organizers in the ALU and how they can be applied more broadly to re-invigorate the labor movement.
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Ep 178 - From The River To The Sea
Overtime Episode 51 PREVIEW - The General Strike in US History Pt 4
Ep 177 - Healthcare Heroes Have Had Enough
Ep 176 - A Perfectly Scripted Victory
Movie Time 7 PREVIEW - On The Waterfront
Ep 175 - No Pay? No Parts!
Overtime Episode 50 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 7
Ep 174 - The UAW Stands Up
Overtime Episode 49 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 6
Ep 173 - Big 3 Showdown
Overtime Episode 48 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 5
Ep 172 - Throwing Bosses In The Bin
Overtime Episode 47 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 4
Ep 171 - Farm Workers Fight Back
Overtime Episode 46 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 3
Ep 170 - Exploitation Should Be a Crime
Overtime Episode 45 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 2
Ep 169 - Union Busting is Organized Crime
Overtime Episode 44 PREVIEW - Unions and The Mob: The ILA - Pt 1
Ep 168 - The War on Remote Work
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