Podcasts about mcstrike

Hey listeners! We've launched a Patreon. If you want to support us for a small monthly fee, head to patreon.com/MediaStormPodcastWhat words come to mind when you hear the word 'strikes'? Delays, cancellations, chaos? With 'misery for ordinary people!' brandished across our headlines, it's easy to see strikes as a general nuisance. But this week's episode of Media Storm looks beyond the everyday grumblings of train delays and travel chaos, to ask the question “what have trade unions ever done for me?”Spoiler alert - quite a lot it seems.Focussing on three key areas of union achievements - health & safety rights, wage increases, and equal pay - we speak to strikers standing on the shoulders of the first trade unionists. Hear from a Bristol midwife struggling with poor conditions who felt balloting for industrial action was the only answer, the then 23-year-old leader if the 2017 McStrike (who got the date tattooed on her arm!), and one of the warriors that won Glasgow women back almost three quarters of a billion pounds of stolen wages.In the studio, we have General-Secretary of the ASLEF union Mick Whelan - who is no stranger to tough media rounds, to dissect the myths and latest headlines about strikes, unions, and workers - and tell us whether he really did schedule a rail strike over Eurovision...Speakers:Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbsSophie Inman @midwives_rcm @MidwivesRCMRhea Wolfson @rheawolfsonShen Batmaz Mick Whelan @ASLEFunionSources:Scottish coal mining death rates eprints.gla.ac.uk/210374/7/210374.pdf Working class journalists pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/journalists-class-backgrounds/ Royal College of Midwives rcm.org.uk Glasgow council equal pay dispute gmbscotland.org.uk/assets/media/documents/unionline/ULS-News-October-2018.pdf The McStrike waronwant.org/our-work/mcstrikeGet in touch:Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/mediastormpodor Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mediastormpodor Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@mediastormpodlike us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MediaStormPodsend us an email mediastormpodcast@gmail.comcheck out our website https://mediastormpodcast.comYour hosts are @helenawadia and @mathildamall. Music by Samfire @soundofsamfire. Media Storm was launched by the house of The Guilty Feminist and is part of the Acast Creator Network. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/media-storm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are joined by special guest Lewis Baker to discuss the working class using the power of a strike. Having taken action against McDonalds for the first time, Lewis knows first hand the power of collectivism.

In this weeks episode, our News anchor James and our News hosts Rebecca and Megan, discuss student tenancy deposits, the McDonalds workers that are striking and their demands and James gives you an overview of Trump's Impeachment.

McDonald's workers in the UK are striking to be paid £15 an hour. Me and my mate Freddy (a man who clearly likes a big mac if you catch my drift) have a freewheeling argument about this and loads of other stuff on my first ever skype podcast. I don't think the audio's as good as normal, I'm still working out how best to do it and it's free so shut up (sorry). It's a belting episode though, Freddie is absolutely infuriating and very funny.Rob Mulholland Has An Opinion is the hilarious comedy podcast where stand up comedian Rob Mulholland has funny opinions about things.If you'd like to suggest a topic for me to have an opinion on then please contact me via twitter (@robmulholland) or email info@robcomedy.co.uk. For tour news and tickets join the mailing list at www.robcomedy.co.uk. Watch my full stand-up special "Too Big To Fail" for free now on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I-uiNpv3k4Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/popcomrob)

This short podcast comes from two talks delivered at a panel event hosted by Manchester Industrial Workers of the World branch. The first is on Deliveroo organising, focused on the ideas of worker leadership and the role of union organisers, activists and rank-and-file workers. The two strikes organised in February of this year are used to highlight these concepts. These ideas are popularised by a US trade union organiser and academic, Jane McAlevey. We discussed some of her ideas in our first episode of 'Talking Shop'. This is followed by a short talk by a worker involved in the McStrike, an organising drive in McDonald’s stores inspired by the Fight for $15 campaign in the US. McDonalds workers in England have been on strike 3 times, 4th September 2017, the 1st May 2018 and on the 4th October 2018 alongside Unite members in TGI Friday’s and IWW & IWGB organised strikes in Deliveroo and UberEats. On November 12th, McDonalds’ workers will go on strike again in 6 stores in London. Their demands are: * £15 an hour * The option of guaranteed 40 hours work a week * An end to youth rates * Union recognition

Episode 116 - A slightly shorter episode than usual because Tiernan (@tiernandouieb) has a cold and let's face it, nothing remotely interesting has happened with Brexit negotiations since last week so no need for Brexit Fallout. Instead there is an interview with Owen Espley (@owenespley) from War On Want (@waronwant) about McStrike (@fastfoodrights) and the gig economy. Plus another look at the absolute sh*tshow that is Universal Credit.Get £3 off tickets to Choose Laughs at Backyard Comedy Club in aid of Help Refugees on October 24th by going HERE and using the code PARPOLBRODonate to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/parpolbroBuy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/parpolbroWatch Tiernan's comedy specials on Next Up Comedy at: www.nextupcomedy.comJoin Tiernan's comedy mailing list at www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/contactFollow us on Twitter @parpolbro, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParPolBro/ and the fancy webpage at http://www.partlypoliticalbroadcast.co.ukMusic by The Last Skeptik (@thelastskeptik) - https://www.thelastskeptik.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With McDonald's workers in two stores set to stage their first ever official strike in UK history, we interview striker and BFAWU activist Steve about the campaign, and discuss the issues it raises. We look back on the "McDonald's Workers' Resistance" network, whose archives are online at https://libcom.org/tags/mcdonalds-workers-resistance, and discuss Unite New Zealand's "Supersize My Pay" campaign (watch a documentary about it here: https://vimeo.com/54901659), and the ongoing "Fight for $15" movement in the USA (the movement involves a galaxy of different campaign groups, unions, and political organisations, but you can get a sense of some of its activity from this site: http://fightfor15.org). The newly tenured Professor Edmund Mustill takes us back in time, to tell the story of the 1912 New York waiters' strike, which you can read up on here: http://hotelworkers.org/about/history/the-story-of-the-first-contract?p=3 We also shout out our fellow labour movement podcast Smash Up Derby, so go check 'em out at http://smashuppodcast.com. Tweet your support for the #McStrike at @bfawu1, @fastfoodrights, and @mcstrike1, and don't forget to follow Labour Days at @labour_days.

As a teaser for our forthcoming sixth episode on food service workers' struggles past and present, we're sharing part of our interview with McDonald's worker and BFAWU activist Steve, who talks about the reasons behind McDonalds workers' upcoming strike on 4 September. The full episode, which also includes a look back at the 1912 New York waiters' strike, will be released next week. For more information on the #McStrike, and how you can support it (including by donating to their strike fund), follow @bfawu1 and @fastfoodrights on Twitter, and visit fastfoodrights.wordpress.com. (As usual, we'd like to remind you that we don't own the intellectual rights to the music used in the podcast, which is copyright 2001 Aesop Rock and Def Jux Records.)