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- Episode 133: Why BCTGM Local 100G Workers Are On Strike At Ingredion
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50 min - Episode 132: Roundtable Conversation on How Trade Spend and Slotting Fees Shape The Grocery Industry
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51 min - Episode 131: Lauren Ornelas on Why Amy’s Kitchen Workers Are Organizing
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48 min - Episode 130: Why Trader Joe’s Workers Want A Union
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18 min - Episode 129: Tevita Uhatafe on the Labor Movement
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37 min - Episode 128: Tommy Carden of Warehouse Workers For Justice
Episode #128 Notes
1:00 - What is Warehouse Workers for Justice?
2:45 - What is it like working in warehouses now, especially through COVID?
7:00 - Where does 3PL come into warehouse and supplychain issues?
9:30 - How do campaigns for work organizing get started?
12:00 - What are the campaigns that you’ve helped start?
16:00 - How do you work with warehouse employees to make them better organizers?
21:00 - On motivations for worker organizing.
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29 min - Episode 127: Andrew deCoriolis of Farm Forward
Episode #127 Notes
1:00 - What is Farm Forward?
2:00 - What is factory farming, and how do you define it?
5:00 - What are zoonatic pandemics?
9:00 - How avian bird flu has affected food prices.
16:00 - On learnings from COVID-19.
19:00 - On transitioning to a better food system, and impacts on the way people access food and eat.
24:00 - On adjusting our diets to reduce meat intake.
29:30 - Farm Forward’s report on chicken labelling and greenwashing.
33:30 - On issues with food certifications.
36:00 - Disease resistance in animals.
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41 min - Episode 126: Kamal Bell of Sankofa Farms
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21 min - Episode 125: Grocery Update- Meat Industry Accountability & Profit Inflation
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27 min - Episode 124: Johnnie Kallas Talks Data and the Labor Upsurge
Episode #124 Notes
1:00 - How did you get into tracking labor strikes as data?
2:00 - Is there an actual labor uprising in the country right now?
4:00 - What is your methodology for data collection for labor strikes?
6:05 - Key findings from Johnnie’s research.
9:00 - What types of industries have been striking recently?
11:00 - What motivates folks to go on strike generally?
14:00 - On distinctions between Organizing vs. Strikes.
16:00 - What are unions roles in labor strikes?
20:20 - On Strike Maps.
23:30 - On the changes in labor policy over the past 40 years. And NAFTA / deindustrialization.
28:00 - Where are we headed in labor organizing currently?
32:00 - Closing thoughts.
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About The Checkout: Grocery Nerds
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Formerly The Checkout, Grocery Nerds is the leading source for insider commentary and analysis on the $1.1 trillion U.S. grocery industry. Founded by 30 year industry veteran operator,…
analyst and O.G. Grocery Nerd Errol Schweizer, Grocery Nerds has four priorities: to demystify the grocery business, including pricing, market segmentation and business operations in the real world-not via academia or public relations B.S.; to platform and hear from essential, front-line grocery workers; to engage with emerging brand innovators and trend leaders; and to hear from independent and cooperative grocery operators on how they are surviving and thriving in this competitive, complex and cutthroat industry. So, are you a Grocery Nerd too?