In this episode Daphna Thier and Ryan Cowles ask a couple fellow labor organizers about the state of the labor movement, and why socialists care so much about labor.

Daphna Thier is a DSA member and longtime bartender based in Brooklyn. She recently stepped down as the chair of DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC), and is now the Labor Education Coordinator at EWOC. You can also find her written work at Jacobin.com, and a chapter she contributed in the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. 

Ryan Cowles is a co-chair on DSA’s National Labor Commission. He helps workers build power in their workplace as a volunteer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee and as a member of Inland Empire DSA.

Emma G. is a rank and file Teamster UPS package delivery worker, and a member of DSA National Labor Committee’s Steering Committee.

Dawn Tefft transitioned from a union member to a union organizer, and she also volunteers as a Lead Organizer for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC).  She is a member of DSA.

Nation Labor Committee 

https://labor.dsausa.org/

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

https://workerorganizing.org/

Volunteer to be an organizer for EWOC 

https://workerorganizing.org/volunteer/ 

DSA chapters interested in hosting local EWOC trainings 

https://airtable.com/shruVX1K8MqrWh08q 

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