Working People

We've got a super special crossover with the Wrong Boys themselves, Aaron and Shawn from the Srsly Wrong podcast! We teamed up to take a deep dive into the history and meaning of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, the largest labor strike in Canada's history. Additional links/info below... Srsly Wrong website, Twitter page, and Patreon Alberta Advantage, "General Strike! Winnipeg 1919-2019" The Magnificast, "The Winnipeg General Strike" Dennis Lewycky, Fernwood Books, "Magnificent Fight The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike" Reinhold Kramer & Tom Mitchell, University of Toronto Press, "When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike" Graphic History Collective & David Lester, Between the Lines, "1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike" Darren Bernhardt, CBC News, "The Wild Woman of the Winnipeg Strike" Mary Horodyski, Manitoba Historical Society, "Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919" Tom Jokinen, The Walrus, "What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us About Class, Capitalism, and Greed" Meagan Day, Jacobin, "The Winnipeg General Strike Is Immortal" Ian Angus, Marxists.org, "What Socialists Learned from the Winnipeg General Strike" Isaac Wurmann, Luma, "Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike" Featured Music Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" - from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org Srsly Wrong theme by dope creature - https://soundcloud.com/dopecreature Fast Talkin by Kevin MacLeod - from Incompetech: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100590

Working People is back and we are excited to announce our official partnership with In These Times magazine! In this episode, we chat with new father Clarke, a contract commercial diver who works on different jobs for different companies throughout the year, completing tasks from underwater welding to removing shoreline debris. Clarke is a navy veteran and a member of the IWW and DSA-LSC. We talk about how he got into this line of work, and we also discuss labor issues in the commercial diving industry and how doing this work has given Clarke a front-row seat to the devastation we are causing to our oceans and our coastlines. Additional links/info below... Clarke's Twitter page In These Times, "Press Release: Announcing Our New Partnership with Working People Podcast" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Marco Trovatello, "Violin Spider"

Part II of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers' sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). We talk to David Tieu, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3, about working on the Hudson Yards project in New York City and seeing firsthand how employers exploit undocumented workers and undercut unions. Additional links/info below... Break the Chains website: https://equalrightsforallworkers.org/ Break the Chains Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/equalrightsforallworkers/ Maximillian Alvarez & William Lopez, In These Times, "It's Not Just About Deportations: Trump Wants to Create a Permanent Underclass" Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, "Hudson Yards Is Manhattan's Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community" Eleanor Gibson, DeZeen, "New York Construction Workers Stage Protest against Hudson Yards Developer" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

Instacart shoppers walked off the job this Sunday in protest of the company's rampant wage/tip theft and dishonest, exploitative practices. We chat with Vanessa Bain, a full-time gig worker and one of the organizers of the protest. Additional links/info below... Vanessa's Twitter page Vanessa Bain, Medium, "Dear Instacart Customers" Instacart Workers, Medium, "Dear Apoorva Mehta (Founder and CEO of Instacart)" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Benjamin Banger, "Bobby Drake"

In Part II of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Dana Garner, a veteran trucker and wood hauler from St. Francis, and an organizer with the Machinists Union. We talk about Dana's days driving his rig all over the United States and about coming back home to Maine to work full-time hauling logs out of the woods. We talk about the strains of working 20-hour shifts and being in the cab all day, and about the obvious dangers of driving heavy loads on mountain roads, and we also talk about the ways landowners in the region exploit workers and pit them against one another to meet deadlines and quotas. Additional links/info below... Staff, Mainebiz, "Maine Loggers and Wood Haulers Gain Right to Bargain Collectively" Andy O'Brien, Maine AFL-CIO, "Weekly Update: Labor Lobby Day, Dinner with Jared Golden & The First Strike of Irish Mainers" Dan Morgan, The Washington Post, "Company 'Slavery' Ignites Maine Woodsmen's Union (1977)" Beth Brogan, News Center Maine, "Maine Loggers Poised to Unionize" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Cletus Got Shot, "Congressman"

Our Working People Halloween special! We talk with Jon and Ash from The Horror Vanguard podcast about horror, the working class, and how there's nothing scarier than capitalism... Additional links/info below... The Horror Vanguard Twitter page and Patreon page Jon's Twitter page Ash's Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Joro Gaming, "Free Scary Music" Loyalty Freak Music, "Monster Parade"

Part I of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers' sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) and secure equal rights for all workers (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). Additional links/info below... Break the Chains website: https://equalrightsforallworkers.org/ Break the Chains Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/equalrightsforallworkers/ Maximillian Alvarez & William Lopez, In These Times, "It's Not Just About Deportations: Trump Wants to Create a Permanent Underclass" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

In Part I of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Mark Hardison, a longtime woodcutter from Eastern Maine, near the town of Ellsworth. We talk about Mark's life, getting involved in the woods industry, and about the ways that the industry has changed over the years. We also talk about efforts to organize workers in the woods industry and the long and complicated history between American workers, Canadian workers, and the companies that pit them against each other. We also talk about the serious dangers that workers in this industry face on a daily basis, including Mark himself, who was nearly crushed to death by a hanging tree. We also check in with our friend Lauren Schandevel for the first installment on her recurring segment, The Bellwether Bitch, where she breaks down media representations of Macomb County, MI, where Lauren grew up. Working People call-in line #: 734-272-4402 Additional links/info below... Dan Morgan, The Washington Post, "Company 'Slavery' Ignites Maine Woodsmen's Union (1977)" Steve Fuller, The Ellsworth American, "Bucksport First Responders Help Save Injured Logger's Life" Beth Brogan, News Center Maine, "Maine Loggers Poised to Unionize" The Bellwether Bitch... Lauren's Twitter page The Lead, CNN, "Voters in Critical Swing State on Impeachment" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" November Polaroid, "Silent Ships"

We talk with John Jayne, a GM worker in Philadelphia and member of UAW Local 2177, about the month-long UAW strike and the new tentative contract agreement. Additional links/info below... Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, "GM-UAW Deal Calls for 9,000 Jobs, $9,000 Ratification Bonus, E-truck at Detroit-Hamtramck" Jamie McCallum, Jacobin, ""They Made That Money off Our Blood, Sweat, and Tears"" Sean Crawford and Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times, "The Strike Against General Motors Is One Front in a Much Larger Class War" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Pete Seger, "Solidarity Forever"

We talk with Darrow, office coordinator for Portland State University's Women, Sexuality, & Gender Studies Department and member organizer for SEIU Local 503. We talk about Darrow's involvement in the union and about the planned statewide strike that was narrowly averted soon after we recorded this episode. But we also got a chance to talk about Darrow's life as a queer millennial from the Northern Mariana Islands who made their way to being a university staff worker in Oregon and getting involved in union organizing. Additional links/info below... CSEIU 503 website and Twitter page Kelly Hayes, Truthout, "Oregon State University Employees Vote to Authorize a Strike Amid Heated Moment" Kim Kelly, The New Republic, "The Next Big Labor Strike Hits Oregon" Henry Houston, Eugene Weekly, "SEIU, Universities Avoid Strike" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Scott Holmes, "Hotshot"