The Labor Notes Podcast
The Labor Notes Podcast is a new show from the folks who put on the Labor Notes conference every two years. We’ll talk each week about the strikes, contract campaigns, shop floor actions, reform caucus organizing, and union elections that our staff and rank-and-file workers in the labor movement’s troublemaking wing write about and work on all year round.
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28 minutes ago
It matters to us as workers to have a liveable planet! And the labor movement has unique leverage and responsibility to push for climate action in the workplace and in contracts.The upcoming April issue of Labor Notes spotlights how workers are fighting for better conditions as they contend with storms, heat waves, and wildfires while on the job, and how they are staking their place in the transition away from fossil fuels. Labor Notes Organizers Kari Thompson and Keith Brower Brown join pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann.Subscribe to the Labor Notes magazine at labornotes.org/store/labor-notes-subscription!
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
When Nippon sought to acquire U.S. Steel in a $15 billion acquisition last year, the companies went to great lengths to convince U.S. Steel workers that the deal would benefit them too (and not just line executives’ pockets). But the workers didn’t buy it. Tune in to the inaugural episode of the Labor Notes Podcast to hear about how the workers saw through the companies’ shenanigans and resisted an acquisition that could have left them on the chopping block. The deal, which likely would have helped Nippon evade tariffs, was blocked by the Biden administration at the end of 2024, but might not be entirely off the table for the future.