Work Stoppage

Ep 238 - No Contract, No Work

Amazon Teamster Strike Fund: https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/strike-fundraising

Amazon Teamster Su...

Ep 237 - Exploitation Superstore

After an opening discussion of the powerful response of the South Korean people and their labor movement to last week's attempted coup, we dive into out headlines. We've got updates on the organizi...

Ep 236 - Dr. Union

Despite the holiday, workers never stop, so labor news doesn't either! After several stories of the agonizingly slow wheels of "justice" for workers in the legal system in our Headlines, we dive in...

Crossover Ep: Labor Zionism (ft. The Minyan)

We're extremely excited this week that Dan was invited to sit down with Prez and Talia from The Minyan podcast to discuss the long history of support for Israel by US labor unions and how that has ...

Ep 235 - Delivering Worker Resistance

We've got a jam packed episode, as workers all around the world are on the move. First we've got headlines covering stories in Germany, South Korea, California and Florida. For our first main story...

Unlocked Interview: Build a Fighting NALC

We are joined by C Moline a coordinating committee member of Build a Fighting NALC to talk about the many issues with the current TA that was presented to city postal workers by NALC national. We a...

Ep 234 - Northern Exposure

After updates on striking hotel workers, new UAW academic organizing, city workers in Philly and avian flu in dairy workers, we dive into our main stories. Michigan nurses won a massive union elect...

Ep 233 - Same Threats as Yesterday

It's impossible to start this week without discussing the fallout from the big election, so we start our main stories with a roundup of statements from union leaders in response to the new era of o...

Ep 232 - Lockout Lessons

We've got headlines this week from NYC, Boston, Minneapolis, the island of Guadeloupe, and also PBS. Pepsi recently shocked workers in Chicago when they abruptly closed the region's only bottling p...

Ep 231 - No Diet COLA!

We start this week with a quick check-in on rideshare drivers in NYC, hotel workers in Boston, and nurses in North Carolina and Michigan. For our first major story, letter carriers across the count...

Unlocked Interview: Blue-Collar Empire by Jeff Schuhrke

We are joined by Jeff Schuhrke, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Empire State University to discuss his new book Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusa...

Ep 230 - Winning at Walmart

After our headlines we discuss a new piece from Workday Magazine this week covering the progress in growing the coalition for a May Day 2028 general strike. Workers at GE Appliances are gearing up ...

Ep 229 - Goodwill Union Hunting

Tell Goodwill to Stop Union Busting: https://goodwillcolorado.org/about-us/contact-us/

We start this ...

OT Ep 77: Anti-Union Talking Points Pt1

In this episode we go over a ton of classic anti-union talking points and tear them apart. From tired points like "unions are a business" to unions "protecting lazy workers", in this first episode...

Ep 228 - One Year of Resistance

After commemorating one year of the US-Israeli genocide in Palestine, we discuss the response from workers in Spain, who launched a one day nationwide strike demanding an end to all relations with ...

Ep 227 - "We'll Cripple You"

This week we start with messages of solidarity to workers across the South affected by Hurricane Helene, and workers across Lebanon affected by the horrific expansion of US-Israeli attacks. We also...

Ep 226 - World Class Workers

Support Striking ILWU Local 6 Workers: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-local-...

Interview: Judy Gearhart of Labor Link

We are joined by Judy Gearhart to talk about her podcast Labor Link. On her show she interviews workers and worker advocates in many highly exploited industries in Southeast and Southern Asia. From...

Ep 225 - Nationalize Boeing!

Legal Fund of Michigan Students for Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/um-palestine-legalfund

Li...

Ep 224 - The Wage Theft Industry

We start with updates on The Bird Union, Unite Here hotel workers, the UAW, and AT&T workers on strike across the South. Following our headlines, we discuss the recent firing of rail engineer, ...

Ep 223 - Labor Day Means Strike!

It's Labor Day, and that can only mean workers standing up for our rights on the job. We begin this week with the launch of this weekend's national hotel strike by workers in Unite Here. After some...

Ep 222 - North of the Border

UAW GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-uaw-brother-antonio-gastons-...

Ep 221 - Cornell Stands Up!

We start this week's episode with some quick check ins on: recent organizing wins by the Teamsters, a new strike at Samsung, ULPs filed against Donald Trump by the UAW, a new CEO at Starbucks, and ...

OT Ep 76: Cannabis and Labor Pt 4

In this installment of “The Weed Series,” the gang discusses the conditions of the cannabis industry in New Mexico and Arizona. We cover workers who organized the first agricultural cannabis un...

Ep 220 - Beat the Heat: Organize!

Another jam packed week of labor news! We start this week with follow-ups on workers at Samsung, REI, and Apple. We also follow up on the impact of Florida politicians' attempts to destroy the stat...

Ep 219 - Working Below Subsistence

We start this week with workers advancing the struggle for solidarity with Palestine in the UE and AFT, along with international stories from Brazil and The Netherlands. Also this week, workers rat...

OT Ep 75: Cannabis and Labor Pt 3

In this installment of “The Weed Series,” the gang discusses New York. We cover workers in Syracuse who unionized with RWDSU/UFCW 338, the state of employee protections in New York for lawful c...

Ep 218 - Unions Against Imperialism

We've got an especially internationalist show this week. After our headlines we start our main stories with some of the recent industrial action taken by French workers ahead of and during the ongo...

Ep 217 - Friends and Enemies

AFT 4 Palestine Petition: https://www.aft4palestine.org/take-action

We've got an absolutely packed show this ...

OT Ep 74: Cannabis and Labor Pt 2

In the second episode of this THC-infused Overtime series, the gang investigates the cannabis industry stronghold: California. We examine the status of employee protections for lawful cannabis user...