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The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement. Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sinyai is the Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network. Our other guests today hail from across the country and around the world, from April Lott, president of the Charleston South Carolina Labor Council, to Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. Fathimath Zimna (photo) is General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union and we wrap up today's show with Laxman Basnet, General Secretary of the South Asian Regional Trade Union Council. We've got a lot more already lined up for tomorrow's show, including an exclusive sit down with Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond, who talked with the Labor Radio Podcast Network just hours after being elected President and Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Also, Karen Nussbaum interviewed a number of international trade unionists which we'll be featuring in tomorrow's report. Interviews and editing by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips. #LaborRadioPod
The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sinyai is the Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network. Our other guests today hail from across the country and around the world, from April Lott, president of the Charleston South Carolina Labor Council, to Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. Fathimath Zimna (photo) is General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union and we wrap up today's show with Laxman Basnet, General Secretary of the South Asian Regional Trade Union Council. We've got a lot more already lined up for tomorrow's show, including an exclusive sitdown with Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond, who talked with the Labor Radio Podcast Network just hours after being elected President and Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Also, Karen Nussbaum interviewed a number of international trade unionists which we'll be featuring in tomorrow's report. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv Interviews and editing by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Lively and informative “A New Day” panel discussion tonight; CLICK HERE for details and to register. Today's labor quote: Kooper Caraway. Today's labor history: Machinists launch 43-day strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MachinistsUnion @KooperCaraway Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Lively and informative “A New Day” panel discussion tonight; CLICK HERE for details and to register. Today's labor quote: Kooper Caraway. Today's labor history: Machinists launch 43-day strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MachinistsUnion @KooperCaraway Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Kooper Caraway dropped by to tell us about his life and history as an activist and organizer. He's the President of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, and at 29 years old he became the youngest State Labor Federation President in the Nation. Additional Links Below… Kooper Caraway Website, Twitter Organize or Die': Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement The Future of Labor Is Growing in South Dakota In South Dakota, a Young Labor Leader Wants to Rebuild a Culture of Solidarity Permanent Links Below… Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music for this episode: Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, he's also the former statewide representative for AFSCME Council 65, which represents workers in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota. Previously, Kooper worked with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Kooper joins us to discuss the wave of strikes sweeping across the United States: over 10,000 John Deere workers, 1,400 Kellogg's cereal factory workers, over 24,000 nurses and healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente, and many more. We discuss the tactics being deployed by employers—like attempting to hire non-union workers—and why it's imperative that workers hold the line and continue to fight back. Kooper explains the optimism present among workers, and how this has driven a new generation of union members and organizers. Follow Kooper on Twitter @KooperCaraway. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!
We cover a lot of important worker struggles on this show, but it's important to cover worker victories as well—and workers in South Dakota just landed a huge victory. After suffering one of the worst COVID workplace outbreaks in the country last year, leading to four deaths and over 1,200 infections, workers at the Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls refused to back down on demands for better pay and to retain a 15-minute break during the second half of their shifts. When negotiations with Smithfield stalled, UFCW Local 304A members voted overwhelmingly (98%) to authorize a strike, and the company backed down. On this extended mini-cast, we welcome back president of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Kooper Caraway, to discuss this important victory and what lessons the labor movement should take away from it.
Our Word of the Week is "General Strike," and what it will take to be a useful tool for the 99% in the U.S. Our interview is an hour-long piece with the dynamic Kooper Caraway, currently the President of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. We also continue our coverage of the pandemic and the national Strike in Colombia. Kathryn Kern and Mark host this week's show.
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We cover a lot of important worker struggles on this show, but it's important to cover worker victories as well—and workers in South Dakota just landed a huge victory! After suffering one of the worst COVID workplace outbreaks in the country last year, leading to four deaths and over 1,000 infections, workers at the Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls refused to back down on demands for better pay and for a 15-minute break during the second half of their shifts. When negotiations with Smithfield stalled, UFCW Local 304A members voted overwhelmingly (98%) to authorize a strike, and the company backed down. On this extended mini-cast, we welcome back beloved friend of the show and president of the South Dakota Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Kooper Caraway, to discuss this important victory and what lessons the labor movement should take away from it. Additional links/info below... Kooper's Twitter page UFCW Local 304A Facebook page Sioux Falls AFL-CIO's website and Twitter page Working People, "Labor is Antifascist (w/ Kooper Caraway)" Kim Kelly, The New Republic, "The Future of Labor Is Growing in South Dakota" Makenzie Huber, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, "How COVID-19 Tore Through Smithfield's Meatpacking Plant in 17 Days" Chacour Koop, The Kansas City Star, "After COVID-19 Outbreak Kills 4, Smithfield Meat Plant in South Dakota Fined $13,494" Stephen Groves, Associated Press, "Union Vote Authorizes Strike at South Dakota Pork Plant" Associated Press, "South Dakota Pork Plant, Labor Union Reach 4-Year Agreement" 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" Meydan, "Away"
A federal judge has blocked the state from enforcing Senate Bill 180 (approved during the 2020 South Dakota legislative session). The court ruling says paid petition circulators do not have to register in a state database. The law was challenged by Dakotans for Health. Victoria Wicks reports on the case. Senator Mike Rounds joins us for an update on the new mission at Ellsworth AFB. We also discuss bipartisan infrastructure framework. Smithfield Foods and the union (UFCW Local 304A) are closer to reaching a contract for meatpacking workers, potentially avoiding a work stoppage. We talk with Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO about how the pandemic has shifted the statewide conversation about organizing. Also joining us in the studio: Jesus Gonzalez, a reporter at ¿Que Pasa? Sioux Falls . It's a nationally recognized media and communications organization that serves as an information lifeline to the regional Latino community. We hear some
Channelling enthusiasm for a #GeneralStrike with Kooper Caraway, President of the South Dakota Federation of Labor. PSL Presidential candidate Gloria La Riva joins us to talk about the campaign.Trump admin wants to improve “customer service” in national forests for oil and gas companies.
On this week's show, we've got a little bit of everything…. Organized labor in the United States has a very checkered history when it comes to issues of race and gender.” Racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher on The Heartland Labor Forum… “If it's in the air, it's in the air, so we all need to work together to make sure that we're all going home as good as we came in in the morning.” Shaun Trude, Safety and Health Project Coordinator for the Machinists, on how workers can protect themselves and how the union is fighting for even more protections amid COVID-19 on the Activate Live podcast… “In the rest of the industrialized world, you just have a right to your job.” Shaun Richman, author of "Tell The Bosses We're Coming,” on the My Labor Radio podcast… “I do not believe basic income or a guaranteed income is a replacement for the safety net, I believe it's an addition to it.” Labor Express Radio explores whether Universal Basic Income is a solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy or a distraction from real solutions… “The government of South Dakota is anti union, and South Dakota was one of the first Right to Work states.” Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO on the Working People podcast… “Workers shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a business model that works only when they are exploited.” On a special extra edition of The Gig podcast, updates on the legal battles by gig workers around the world… “The train master goes, ‘You're doing kind of a fast there, so what's going on? He goes, ‘I see your sons are running the engine here. Yeah, you might want to slow that down. That's totally a 10-mile-an-hour yard; you're doing already doing 40.” That's from a brand-new Labor Radio-Podcast Network member, the Tales from Two Blue Collar Workers podcast. Plus, Frederick Douglass on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on Union City Radio. Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org. Social media guru: Harold Phillips
UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: We talk to Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO and Labor Rep for AFSCME Council 65 about the labor movement in South Dakota and about doing labor organizing that is bold, inclusive, anti-racist, and antifascist. (If you want to hear more bonus episodes like this, subscribe to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/WorkingPeople) Additional links/info below... Kooper's Twitter page Sioux Falls AFL-CIO's website and Twitter page Rebecca Zweig, The Nation, "‘Organize or Die’: Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement" Brendan O'Connor, Strikewave, "Want to Celebrate May Day? Fight for Antifascist Unions" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Roger McGuinn, "When I First Came to This Land"
On the latest Belabored podcast, Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen report on school employees in Minnesota fighting for safety on the job and an attempt to pass an Essential Workers Bill of Rights in New York City; we get really local on Stronger Together, the SEIU Local 503 podcast, where the latest episode focuses on the upcoming Oregon political primary, which has both union members and strong union supporters running for office; on Workers Beat Radio, host Gene Lantz talks with Sioux Falls central labor council president Kooper Caraway, one of the youngest, most hopeful and most outspoken labor leaders in the country. Plus: In Labor History in 2:00, Brown v. Board of Education, the day the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public education. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
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In this week's In the Moment News Podcast, we hear from union leader Kooper Caraway, Kevin Woster talks Governor Noems view of the media, Political Junkies discuss the state budget, and more.
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Kooper Caraway, the current president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO central labor council in South Dakota and a Labor Rep for AFSCME Council 65, representing workers in Minnesota as well as North and South Dakota. Before being elected central labor council president at age 27, making him the youngest ever in the history of the AFL-CIO, he worked with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Kooper begins by sharing his first experiences of organizing, including successfully thwarting an ICE deportation raid while still in high school. The gang talks about the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO’s decision to ban white supremacists from union membership, and Kooper discusses the need to forge lasting connections between the labor movement and community organizers, including the actions his organization has taken to support workers in South Dakota’s Native communities. Kooper ends with his thoughts on the importance of changing the culture of union organizing towards inclusivity and international solidarity. Follow Kooper on Twitter @KooperCaraway. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!
“All you have to do is give young people the information and let them know that forming a union is an option.” Today’s labor history: Fire fighters organize. Today’s labor quote by Frederick Douglass.
“No one likes the side hustle economy. Nobody likes being exploited”...Today’s labor history: Kurt Stand on Joe McCarthy’s red-baiting attacks on federal workers and unions. Today’s labor quote by T Bone Slim.
Julie and Tim talk to Kooper Caraway, the dynamic 28-year old president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO. Caraway offers his ideas for how the labor movement can reach young people, recalls his own history with activism and informs Tim that millennials don't use the word "cool."
The Patrick Lalley Show on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Twins-shortened show with Kooper Caraway, president of the Sioux Falls chapter of the AFL-CIO.