Unions

"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political...

Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union.

Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.

Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.

Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing.

Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster.

Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.

Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.

Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.

Liz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!

Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.

Joe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.

Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!

Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.

Gabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.

Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."

Marianne Garneau discusses her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?" Re-issued with improved audio quality.

Hamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away

Elizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.

Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.

Marybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.

MK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.

Tom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.

We discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.

Peter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press

A collaboration with One Big Podcast discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.

Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.

Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.

The IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.

Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."

Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.

To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!

Connecting movement histories to fight against fracture, imposing accountability, and hard questions for the IWW and DSA.

Ellen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.

Driedger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework.

Comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.

You can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.

As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.

Two part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.

We already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.

Even for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.

By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.

Trump’s rise to power represents a battle over utopia where the right-wing has so far proved victorious.

The social relations in which we are in need to fundamentally change. The worksite is key not just for better wages but to end exploitation.

What precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?

Abolitionist university studies positioned against academia.

We spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.

We spoke with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work, on why for strikes to be effective they must have specific targets tied to...

We spoke with Shane Burley about his recent piece for Think Progress on BVWU and learned more about how these workers were able to...

We spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...