We Rise Fighting - Labor Podcast

-UAW on strike against the Big 3 Automakers.
-Information on the Worker & Community Summit in Neenah, WI, Sept 30th, 2023.

This week we offer details on the Worker/Community Summit taking place in Neenah, WI and interview Justine, a young worker from Madison who recently helped organize a union with the Communications Workers of America.

Reflections on Labor Day as well as news updates on the United Auto Workers negotiations, Teamsters Local 662, Kaiser Permanente workers in Colorado, American Airlines, and Anderson Economic Group.

Mercury Cafe workers in Denver, Graduate Employees Organization Local 3550 contract ratification, Trader Joe's United, Teamsters & UPS, Teamsters Local 662, Labor Day events in Wisconsin, potential United Autoworkers strike, March in Milwaukee, Anderson Economic Group, OPEIU.

Correction: at a certain point in the program I [Ric] attribute the "$2 billion per day" figure to the Anderson Economic Group (AEG). This is not correct. The American Association of Railroads came up with that number. AEG chimed in later with their own [equally goofy] figure.

Labor news updates on the Teamsters, Starbucks workers and the Republican National Convention. Also, when we hear stuff like "the strike will cost the economy $2 billion per day", where do those numbers actually come from? Who creates those numbers and how? Should we believe them?

Updates on the Teamsters, United Auto Workers, the Republican National Convention, the SAG AFTRA strike and Starbucks workers. We also revisit the wild world of “a strike would cost the economy $X billion dollars per day”.

Teamsters, Amazon workers in Britain, Starbucks workers, the RNC, Laborfest, the Tampa 5 and an update on the generally growing strike activity within the US labor movement.

*Correction: at one point Ric is reading strike statistics from Jeremy Brecher's book "Strike" and says "1994" (with conviction!) instead of "1944".

Recent labor new from Teamsters union, UPS, McDonalds workers, the RNC, the Graduate Employees Organization Local 3550 in Ann Arbor, SAF-AFTRA strike, Laborfest, OPEIU and more!

Conspiracy theories vs. Marxian economic/labor theory.
-Common characteristics and flaws in conspiracy theories.
-Marxism as a systemic critique of capitalism rooted in the material dialectic.

Labor news updates on: Teamsters & UPS, Graduate Employees Organization (Univ of Mich) strike update, UNITE HERE hotel workers strike in California, the struggles in France and Palestine, and the Starbucks workers strike. This show begins with a full-length recording of Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass' piece "What to the slave is the fourth of July?".