Work Stoppage
workstoppage
A weekly labor news podcast covering workers‘ struggles around the world from a revolutionary left perspective.
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Sep 3, 2020 • 10min
Ep 11 - End "No Strike" Clauses [PREVIEW]
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Lina and John cover a unionizing coffee house chain in the Minneapolis area, a faux leftist vegan meat company doing DMCA requests to silence workers they union busted, Amazon blatantly tracking labor organizing, the massive sports strike, and as always we talk about teacher's unions.
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Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 36min
Death Panel - Back to School w/ Work Stoppage
We went on the Death Panel podcast today! Here is their description of the episode.
We're joined by Lina and John of Work Stoppage to discuss the push to reopen schools in the U.S. at any cost, and the actions teachers' unions have (and haven't) taken to stop it. We also get into the strikes vs boycotts discussion brought on by the NBA work stoppage.
Find Work Stoppage on your podcast player of choice and support them at www.patreon.com/workstoppage
As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
new Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
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Aug 26, 2020 • 1h 5min
Ep 10 - Hunger Strike, Colonized Workers, & More Teachers
In this episode, Lina and John follow-up on Bath Iron Works and cover Detroit teachers authorizing a strike, a dead worker left under umbrellas in Brazil, Marchallese workers at risk for covid-19 in Arkansas, police surveillance of an organizer, and Dannielle Brown's hunger strike to get answers for her son's death at Duquesne University.
We really packed in the stories this week, and we hope you enjoy the episode!
To support Dannielle Brown you can cashapp her: $Danniex2
Aug 13, 2020 • 9min
EP 9 - Learning From An Organizer [feat. Eric] [PREVIEW]
John and Lina are joined by Lina's friend and professional organizer Eric to learn a thing or two about how organizing a union works on the ground
Aug 6, 2020 • 1h 11min
EP 8 - Strikes At Schools
John and Lina discuss the scummy things police unions are up to, what's going on in Seattle, how we do not understand sports whatsoever, turning employees into mask police, and especially some labor actions happening at schools scheduled to reopen across the country.
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Jul 29, 2020 • 10min
Ep 7 - Unionize Weed (Teaser)
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In this episode we talk about more health worker strikes, union busting in the marijuana industry, and The Strike For Black Lives
Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 8min
Ep 6 - Covid Causing Unionization
Lina and John discuss a lot of ways that Covid-19 is effecting work conditions and how teachers, child care workers, baristas, and legislature staffers are responding to it.
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Jul 15, 2020 • 16min
EP 5 (Teaser) - Canceling Moldy Jam
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Lina and John follow-up on the Haymarket Pole Collective, discuss cancel culture, a gentrifier moldy jam company, blatant union busting in the UK, and more
Jul 7, 2020 • 59min
Ep 4 - Haymarket Pole Collective
John and Lina follow up on the New Orleans trash collectors and discuss an ironworkers strike, a nurse's strike, a stripper's strike, and the right to protest at work.
Donate To The Haymarket Pole Collective: https://www.haymarketpole.com/donate
Donate To The New Orleans Garbage Collectors: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-essential
Jun 23, 2020 • 1h 5min
Ep 3 - New Orleans Garbage Collectors Strike
Lina and John talk the Atlanta pOliCE sTriKe, dock workers striking across the west coast on Juneteenth, the New Orleans trash collectors strike, and some CHAZ memes
Donate to the striking New Orleans trash collectors gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-essential
outro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUEU8nMy5mA


