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0:08 — Mike Miller is UAW's Region 6 Director 0:20 — Michael Wayland is a reporter for CNBC covering the global automotive industry 0:33 — Alex N. Press, is staff writer at Jacobin covering labor organizing The post UAW Strike Continues appeared first on KPFA.
For this week's free episode, the cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with (now three-time!) guest Alex N. Press, the labour correspondent for Jacobin Magazine, about two of her recent stories. In one, a ‘flexible work' app is assigning people gigs that lead them directly across a picket line. In another, studio executives in Hollywood are dreaming up ways to digitize an actor's likeness and use them in AI-generated content, for free, forever. And in the face of Spencer Confidential not actually getting 11 billion downloads, we ask: is the Silicon Valley-ification of Hollywood just intent on destroying the concept of movies? Check out Alex's articles here! https://jacobin.com/2023/07/southern-california-hotel-workers-strike-automated-management-unite-here https://jacobin.com/2023/07/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-studios-streaming If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)
The United Auto Workers' contract negotiations at the Big 3 automakers – Ford, GM, and Stellantis – just began. Their current labor contracts expire in mid-September, and the new UAW leadership has been crystal clear: they're not afraid to take 150,000 of its members out on strike if their demands aren't met. This would be less than two months after the potential strike of 340,000 Teamsters at UPS. In this bonus episode, we discuss the renewed militancy of the UAW, and the reform movement, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), which shocked the labor world for taking control of the union leadership earlier this year.There is no labor movement resurgence without the resurgence of labor in manufacturing, but the UAW has also been a leader in the upsurge of higher education organizing over the past five years. To discuss all this, we spoke with two newly elected UAW officers: Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A, and Dan Vicente, Director of UAW Region 9. *Hosted by Teddy OstrowEdited by Teddy OstrowProduced by NYGP & Ruby Walsh, in partnership with In These Times & The Real NewsMusic by Casey GallagherCover art by Devlin Claro Resetar**Support the show at Patreon.com/upsurgepod.Follow us on Twitter @upsurgepod, Facebook, The Upsurge, and YouTube @upsurgepod.***Show NotesChris Brooks, "How the UAW Went from a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a Corrupt, Dealmaking One," In These Times, March 5, 2020.Luis Feliz Leon, "'There's a Real Fight Coming': Newly Elected UAW Reformer Daniel Vicente on What's Next," In These Times, March 8, 2023.Alex N. Press, "Can the UAW Rise Again?" Jacobin, March 31, 2023.Becca Roskill, "The End of Business Unionism at the UAW — and Beyond?" The Nation, April 7, 2023.Teddy Ostrow, "Workers Are Transforming America's Most Powerful Unions into Fighting Machines. Yours Could be Next," The Real News, June 26, 2023.UAW Video: "Fighting for COLA"UAW Video: UAW Unionwide Town Hall on the Big Three AutomakersUAW Video: "Our Defining Moment," Calls out Big Three Race to the Bottom in EV Transition.UAW Video: "¼ Trillion"
This week we're talking about the labor movement and the political left. How can they support one another? Is the impending UPS workers strike a redux of their successful win in 1997? What are the political implications of a massive workers strike? This episode is a companion to our recent Bloc Doc video release, “UPS Strike: Lessons from ‘97”. Our old friend Jeremy Flood comes back to interview Jacobin staff writer Alex Press about the UPS workers organizing this year. Jeremy is a Brooklyn based filmmaker who now works as a video producer for the United Auto Workers union. Alex N. Press is a staff writer at Jacobin. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and n+1, among other places. —Follow us in your feeds for new episodes every other Thursday, and keep tabs on our Youtube page for our video team's Bloc Doc series!Questions? Answers? Thoughts? Email us at blocpartypod@gmail.com. Subscribe to the Bloc Media newsletter for bi-weekly updates from the team.
* Ukraine War Underscores Urgent Need for Nuclear De-escalation; Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org; Producer: Scott Harris. * Climate Activists Confront the Formidable Influence Wielded by the Alabama Power Company; Michael Hansen, Executive Director of GASP, the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Starbucks Union Drive Catches Fire Across the US; Alex N. Press, Staff writer at Jacobin Magazine; Producer: Scott Harris.
On rising wages after the pandemic. Workers are quitting their jobs and not going back. Restricted supply is seeing wages go up. Does this signal a new militancy, or are workers just deciding to make do with less? How has the pandemic shaped people's outlooks? Articles: Wages are surging across the rich world, The Economist The Revolt of the American Worker, Paul Krugman, NYT US Workers Are in a Militant Mood, Alex N. Press, Jacobin –– Bungacast will be live in New York on 19 November. Come see Alex Hochuli in conversation with Adam Tooze & Amber A'Lee Frost. Tickets at Eventbrite –– The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast
Tens of thousands of members of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are currently voting on whether or not to authorize a strike. If passed, the vote could lead 60,000 workers to walk off the job and bring the entertainment industry to a halt. As consumers, we tend to associate the entertainment industry with acting stars, elite directors and producers, and big studio executives, but hundreds and and even thousands of workers make every production possible, and many of them are grossly underpaid, overworked, and denied basic necessities like breaks and time to sleep between shifts. Combined with the explosion of streaming services and ever-increasing demands for studio-quality productions, workers in the entertainment industry are being run into the ground, and they have reached a breaking point. IATSE represents over 150,000 technicians, artisans, and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, broadcast, and trade shows in the United States and Canada. The union is composed of many different locals, not all of which are currently voting to authorize a strike. According to Deadline, "there are actually two separate strike authorization votes going on—one among the union's 13 Hollywood production locals covered by the Basic Agreement, and the other covering 23 different locals outside Los Angeles who work under the Area Standards Agreement." In this urgent Working People episode, we talk to a panel of IATSE members about the work they do and the significance of the strike vote currently underway. Panelists include Marisa Shipley (Local 871), David McMahon (Local 52), and Fae Weichsel (Local 600). Additional links/info below... Petition: Tell AMPTP to Give Film and Television Workers a Fair Deal IATSE website, Facebook page, and Twitter page IATSE Stories on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter IATSE Film & TV Negotiations Toolkit IATSE Press Release: "AMPTP Film and Television Negotiations Stalled, Union to Hold Nationwide Strike Authorization Vote" Marissa's Twitter page and Instagram David's Twitter page Fae's Twitter page Alex N. Press, Jacobin, "Film Industry Workers Are Fed Up With Long Hours" Brendan Gallagher, Jacobin, "If Hollywood Workers Strike, the Entertainment Industry Will Grind to a Halt" Gene Maddaus, Variety, "Everything You Need to Know About Hollywood's IATSE Strike Vote" Dominic Patten & David Robb, Deadline, "IATSE Members 'Deserve Respect' Says Union As Strike Authorization Ballots Hit Inboxes This AM" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"
(C/W: bullying, harassment, suicide) Evan Seyfried was a loving son, brother, friend, and a dedicated worker. For 19 years, with a virtually spotless record, Evan worked at a local Kroger grocery store in Milford, Ohio, where he eventually became the dairy department manager. From October 2020 to March 2021, however, Evan suffered a torturous litany of bullying, harassment, and sabotage, according to a lawsuit filed by the Seyfried family. As the lawsuit alleges, it was this treatment, which was the result of a "conspiracy" involving numerous actors, including management-level supervisors at the Milford store, that caused Evan to eventually suffer a "transient episodic break" and take his own life. In this episode, we talk with Evan's mother Linda, his father Ken, and his brother Eric about the beautiful person he was, the horrific treatment he endured, and the need to hold those who wronged him accountable Additional links/info below... Justice for Evan Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram National Workplace Bullying Coalition website, Facebook page, and Twitter page #NotMe App "Lawsuit: Kroger Manager Drove Employee To Suicide" (PDF) Julian Mark, The Washington Post, "Former Kroger Grocery Store Employee's Suicide Was a Result of ‘Torturous Conditions,' Lawsuit Says" Jessica Schmidt, Fox News 19, "Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed against Kroger, Company Employees after Former Manager Took His Own Life" Alex N. Press, Jacobin, "At Kroger and Amazon, Capital Is Going on the Offensive" Anonymous, VICE, "They Call Me a Hero Because I Work at Kroger, So Why Do I Feel Disposable?" Outro Music by Squire Tuck, "A Journey into the Great Unknown" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
Amazon launches "AmaZen" to keep its warehouse workers mindful ... Amazon's total war against unions ... Jeff Bezos blasts off ... Will the feds break up Amazon? ... NYC sues Chipotle, alleging 600,000 labor violations (some involving rats) ... Why many restaurant workers are not returning ... Alex argues for passing the PRO Act ...
Amazon launches "AmaZen" to keep its warehouse workers mindful ... Amazon's total war against unions ... Jeff Bezos blasts off ... Will the feds break up Amazon? ... NYC sues Chipotle, alleging 600,000 labor violations (some involving rats) ... Why many restaurant workers are not returning ... Alex argues for passing the PRO Act ...
To conduct a post-mortem investigation on the Amazon warehouse union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, we’re joined by Alex N. Press—staff writer for Jacobin and one of our favorite labor reporters. As Alex wrote recently, “In the United States, every step of the unionization process is stacked against workers. It is a miracle that anyone ever unionizes.” We discuss the militancy of capital, the organizing conditions of labor today, and the battle for building worker power. The deck was stacked. We lost this fight. But the class war wages on. Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexnpress Read Alex: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/alex-press • Amazon Waged a Brutal Anti-Union Campaign. Unsurprisingly, They Won. | Jacobin | Alex N. Press: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-bessemer-union-drive-vote-nlrb • Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm • How tech workers feel about China, AI and Big Tech’s tremendous power | Protocol | Emily Birnbaum, Issie Lapowsky: https://www.protocol.com/policy/tech-employee-survey/tech-employee-survey-2021 • Amazon's New Algorithm Will Set Workers' Schedules According to Muscle Use | Motherboard | Ed Ongweso: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xeba/amazons-new-algorithm-will-set-workers-schedules-according-to-muscle-use Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills TMK shirts are now available: bonfire.com/mech-luddite/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)
On this edition of Parallax Views, Amazon has come under scrutiny lately for its working conditions and also due to effort of Amazon workers to unionize in Bessemer, Alabama where 1 in 4 residents live in poverty. Jacobin staff writer Alex Press is a journalist who has been on the labor movement beat for some time, and joins us on this edition of the program to discuss her reporting on struggles between Amazon and its workers. Among the topics we cover in this conversation: - How Alex became involved in covering the labor movement as her beat - Amazon worker Jennifer Bates testimony about Amazon warehouse working conditions given at the Senate Budget Committee presided by Bernie Sanders - The grotesque story of Amazon workers having to urinate in bottles and Amazon PR's denialist response to it - Misconceptions and stereotypes about union organizing; the stereotypes of unions as being all about Jimmy Hoffa characters or something out of the popular TV show The Sopranos; black union organizing - Sara Nelson, the Flight Attentdant labor leader whom Alex recently interviewed - The vote for a workers union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama -
人已30，在大城市生活了十几年。高等教育、高楼大厦、高消费、高级汽车、高档手机、高端餐厅，一路高下来，人难免有些幻觉，似乎自己也高出一截来。恰巧社会生产出“中产阶级”这样的词汇，捕获了上面这些有点“高”的人的心。伴随着新阶级被描述出来，新阶级的新焦虑也同步蔓延。每年都能有几十篇和中产相关的焦虑文章在朋友圈刷屏。这批人一面忙着确认自己是否进入了这个阶层，一面焦虑着自己不会滑出去。职业、婚姻、教育、资产，人生围着这些问题展开。直到那天读到 ALEX N. PRESS 的《Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams》，才突然发现在忙忙碌碌中自己到底在紧张什么：哪有什么中产阶级，自己充其量是个中年阶级。引用文章译文微博下首赞评论：中产阶级这个概念不过是资产阶级分化无产阶级的骗局。于是，围绕着这么个概念，我们开展了一场关于无产、中产、资产阶级到底是什么的讨论。有教科书式的理论探讨，也有社会共识的描述。中年阶级们该如何定位自己？或许这期节目能有所启发。
Represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, workers at hotels in Southern California have been taking bold and necessary actions to secure a contract that addresses workers’ serious concerns: from receiving fairer wages that can actually allow workers to keep up with high costs of living, to mitigating the constant threat of sexual harassment and abuse workers in these hotels face every day, especially considering that the vast majority of hotel and hospitality workers are women, many of whom have to work on their own, isolated. Thanks to our friend Glynndana Shevlin (Season 1, Episode 2), we were able to talk about all of this with Maria Isabel, a hotel maid, and Ada Tamayo, an organizer for UNITE HERE Local 11. The four of us sat down and had an important chat about the struggles hotel workers face in Anaheim and elsewhere. Additional links/info below... UNITE HERE Local 11 website, Twitter, and Facebook Gabriel San Román, OC Weekly, "Hotel Wars: Lawsuits, Protests, and Raises Turn Up Heat in OC, LBC" Michael Sainato, The Guardian, "California Hotel Workers 'On the Brink' of Joining Wave of Strikes" Michael Sainato, The Guardian, "'It Was Like Hell': California Hotel Workers Break Their Silence on Abuse" Beige Lucianao-Adams, LA Weekly, "California's Labor Resistance" Jeong Park, The Orange County Register, "Anaheim Councilman Arrested in Civil Disobedience with Protesting Hotel Workers" Margot Roosevelt, The Orange County Register, "Orange County Portrait: Low Wages, Child Poverty, Costly Housing" Alex N. Press, Jacobin, "Sexual Harassment is Everybody's Problem" Shalayne Pulia, InStyle, "6 Women Making Sure Workplace Equality Isn't Just for the C-Suite" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Cordero, "Heart in Me"
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