Reinventing Solidarity

CUNY SLU
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Reinventing Solidarity

Podcast by CUNY SLU

  1. Episode 54 - An Interview with the UAW's Jonah Furman

    6 DAYS AGO

    Episode 54 - An Interview with the UAW's Jonah Furman

    It's been a new day in the United Auto Workers since the election of Shawn Fain as president in 2023, with the union carrying out an aggressive organizing and political program that has established the UAW as a major presence in American life. New Labor Forum's Micah Uetricht spoke to Jonah Furman, a top aide to Fain, about the union's strategy, its various wins and losses among nonunion auto manufacturers in the American South, its relationship to the Democratic Party under President Joe Biden, and the impact of a Donald Trump presidency on the union and labor as a whole.

    1h 11m
  2. Episode 53 - Labor, Big Tech, and A.I.: The Big Picture

    NOV 4

    Episode 53 - Labor, Big Tech, and A.I.: The Big Picture

    What does the rise of artificial intelligence mean for workers and organized labor? And just what is AI, anyway? New Labor Forum editor-at-large discusses these questions and more with labor reporter Alex Press and technology reporter and editor Ed Ongweso, Jr.

    1h 15m
  3. Episode 52 - Free Trade, Repressed Workers

    OCT 4

    Episode 52 - Free Trade, Repressed Workers

    How free was the imposition of the free trade model in the late-twentieth century? Not very, suggests political scientist Adam Dean’s research. The neoliberal trade model that has come to dominate the globe was imposed through repressive measures against the trade unions that opposed it in country after country. Dean talks to New Labor Forum’s Micah Uetricht about this history and what it means for the future of trade policy across the globe.

    1h 6m
  4. Episode 51 - The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

    AUG 30

    Episode 51 - The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

    Times change, in society, politics, and economics, but the labor movement rarely does. Which makes the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) a rare bird in US labor. New Labor Forum editor-at-large Micah Uetricht speaks to EWOC organizer Megan Svoboda about the project's origins in the coronavirus pandemic and how it has grown to a major national organization to aid workers in any industry, anywhere in the United States to take collective action and, frequently, to unionize.

    41 min
  5. Episode 50 - Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement

    JUN 14

    Episode 50 - Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement

    Why are unions essential to LGBTQ liberation? Why is union organizing that advocates for all workers essential to uplifting queer workers? And why is queer advocacy so commonsense to many of today’s unionized workers? Political scientist Joanna Wuest explores these questions and more in a conversation with New Labor Forum editor-at-large Micah Uetricht for our podcast Reinventing Solidarity.

    40 min
  6. Episode 49 - Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes Viral

    MAY 9

    Episode 49 - Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes Viral

    As innovative new union organizing campaigns have taken off around the country in recent years, Rutgers labor scholar Eric Blanc argues that we can see the emergence of a new organizing model that has the potential to meet the moment. He calls it "worker-to-worker organizing," a concept he explored in his Winter 2024 New Labor Forum article "Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes Viral" and in his forthcoming book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press). New Labor Forum editor-at-large Micah Uetricht spoke to Blanc about the model's constituent parts, the role of young workers' increasingly progressive and pro-labor sentiments in the current moment of labor upsurge, and why worker-to-worker organizing can scale up in a way he says the "staff-intensive" model can't.

    45 min
  7. Episode 48 - The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project for Working Families

    APR 2

    Episode 48 - The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project for Working Families

    At a time of crushing childcare costs in New York City and around the country, the labor-backed Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project is one bright spot for working-class families. New Labor Forum editor-at-large Micah Uetricht spoke to United Federation of Teachers vice president for Academic High Schools and chair of the New York Union Child Care Coalition Janella Hinds and Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, representing the 28th assembly district in Queens in the New York state legislature, about the program.

    30 min
  8. Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

    FEB 13

    Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

    The United Auto Workers achieved a real breakthrough in their 2023 strike against the Big Three automakers. For this episode, our new editor-at-large Micah Uetricht interviews longtime labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about his piece in the Spring 2024 issue of New Labor Forum assessing the wins in the contract, the corruption scandals and subsequent new union leadership victory that led to the strike, the UAW's prospects for riding this momentum into organizing nonunion automakers like Volkswagen and Tesla, and more.

    50 min
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Podcast by CUNY SLU

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  • Creator
    CUNY SLU
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    54
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