Revaluing the Strike w/ Erik Baker

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

Erik Baker, an American historian, associate editor at The Drift, and a former UAW staff organizer, joins Laborwave to discuss his article for Jewish Currents, Revaluing the Strike.

You can read the full article at https://jewishcurrents.org/revaluing-the-strike

Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach

Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union but can be a union from the start!

We also talk about strikes, dues checkoff, fighting corporate giants like Starbucks and Amazon, and more.

Check out the article written by Eric Dirnbach and Colette Perold on premajority unionism at https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/

How to Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne Garneau

Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor! Marianne Garneau, editor in chief of Organizing Work, joins the discussion to breakdown the debates on

organizing the unorganized,

the rank and file strategy, and

forming new types of unions.

Check out my new article in Organizing Work that dives deeper into the problems with the "militant minority" tendency: https://organizing.work