The BCTGM Voices Project

037: History of Political Action in Labor and the BCTGM, with Labor Historian Joe McCartin and BCTGM Organizing Director John Price


Listen Later

Learn the legislative and political challenges of Labor in the last century, which inform the BCTGM's political positions today. 

We hear from:

  • Joe McCartin, Georgetown Univ. Professor, Executive Director of Kalmanovitz Initiative fo Labor and the Working Poor
  • John Price, BCTGM Director of Organization
  • References from this episode:

    • Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America - Book by Joe McCartin
  • Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 - Book by Joe McCartin
  • Bargaining for the Common Good Initiative

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    The BCTGM Voices ProjectBy BCTGM International Union