Canarycast

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown moderates a discussion about the importance of a strong manufacturing career pipeline with Laurie Moline, the founder of the Get Connected program with United Way in Stark County, and two former Get Connected students who now work at the welding company Ohio Gratings, Paul Anderson and Kris Carter. Laurie explains how she began Get Connected, and talks about how the program exposes her students to good-paying, fulfilling careers in manufacturing through a career-based mentoring program. The workers also discuss what they learned in Get Connected, and how they found their way to successful careers at Ohio Gratings.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown talks with Ohio steelworkers Tanika Lewis, James Evanoff, and Ben Doyle about the value of their work in the steel plants and its importance to their Ohio communities. The workers also discuss the importance of Buy America provisions and enforcing trade rules to crack down on China’s cheating and level the playing field for American workers.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown interviews call center workers and Ohio natives, Linda Bradley, Marvin Thompson, and Renee Rouser, about what it means to work in an industry that has become extremely vulnerable to outsourcing. Linda, Marvin, and Renee – all members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union – debunk the preconceived notions of what it means to be a call center worker.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown interviews Lee Saunders, President of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and Jeana Campolo, an Ohio AFSCME worker, about the importance of workers having a seat at the table and a voice in the decisions that are made about their lives and their work. They discuss the Supreme Court case Janus vs. AFSCME, which is the latest attempt to chip away at workers’ power in the workplace. If the Supreme Court rules against the union in this case, it will limit workers’ freedom to organize and to advocate for themselves.

In his second episode of Canarycast, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown speaks about the importance of retirement security. He interviews Mike Walden, President of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions, and Rita Lewis, the widow of a southwest Ohio Teamster, who has continued her late husband’s fight for the retirement security workers earned.

In his first episode of Canarycast, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown interviews 3 workers from the Whirlpool Plant in Clyde, Ohio, about their modern manufacturing jobs. Whirlpool was in DC to argue a case before the International Trade Commission, where Sherrod testified on their behalf.