52 min
Arm in Arm, Stronger Together: Labor Organizing on College Campuses The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPS
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This episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at labor organizing on college campuses such as unionization and collective bargaining; struggles for better wages and social benefits; and campaigns against privatization. These battles have been propelled by campus workers (faculty, staff, graduate students) affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, Communication Workers of America, United Autoworkers, Service Employees International Union, Unite HERE, and other unions. Our guests are Dr. Nikol Alexander-Floyd and Patrick Scott. Dr. Alexander-Floyd is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an Associate Member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. A lawyer and political scientist, she is the co-founder of the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics and author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. She has served on the Executive Council of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) at Rutgers University. Mr. Scott is the Deputy Director of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and previously coordinated the Southern Regional Office of the AFL-CIO. He worked closely with the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer Program that was established in the mid-1990s, and has offered basic organizing skills and immersion training in union-based organizing campaigns to hundreds of young activists. He has also worked on labor education, "train up" organizing sessions, and the ATL Solidarity Committee that organized employees at Delta Air Lines.
This episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at labor organizing on college campuses such as unionization and collective bargaining; struggles for better wages and social benefits; and campaigns against privatization. These battles have been propelled by campus workers (faculty, staff, graduate students) affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, Communication Workers of America, United Autoworkers, Service Employees International Union, Unite HERE, and other unions. Our guests are Dr. Nikol Alexander-Floyd and Patrick Scott. Dr. Alexander-Floyd is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an Associate Member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. A lawyer and political scientist, she is the co-founder of the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics and author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. She has served on the Executive Council of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) at Rutgers University. Mr. Scott is the Deputy Director of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and previously coordinated the Southern Regional Office of the AFL-CIO. He worked closely with the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer Program that was established in the mid-1990s, and has offered basic organizing skills and immersion training in union-based organizing campaigns to hundreds of young activists. He has also worked on labor education, "train up" organizing sessions, and the ATL Solidarity Committee that organized employees at Delta Air Lines.
52 min