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Review of No Blood - No Job: Australia’s Privacy Laws and Workers' Rights

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Jeff Graham Show Aug. 22, 2024

In what has become a ritual, the Chairman once again repeated his often-stated sentiment that:  "Our objective has been to restore price stability while maintaining a strong labor market..."

Aug 25 2024 Ritual

UAW GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-uaw-brother-antonio-gastons-family-after-tragedy

AT&T Petition: https://www.cwa.org/attse-support

Another news packed week starts with some follow up on the Teamsters negotiations with Costco, the UAW's fight to hold Stellantis to the contract, and more workers fighting for heat protections. Our first major story is last week's one day rail lockout in Canada, and we discuss the decision by the state to intervene and abandon workers' rights. Next we dig into several stories of teachers at campuses across the US fighting back against draconian policies restricting political speech by students protesting against genocide. California's state government this week made a sweetheart deal with Google, letting them off the hook for destroying innumerable small newsrooms in its quest to monopolize the web. Finally, over 17,000 workers at AT&T across the Southeast have been on strike for two weeks after the company wouldn't even send anyone empowered to negotiate to that table.

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Ep 222 - North of the Border

Leslie is joined by Fred Redmond, Secretary-Treasurer of the 60 unions and 12.5 million members of the AFL-CIO. On June 13, 2022, he was unanimously elected to the position as the highest ranking African American officer in the history of America’s labor movement.

He first discusses with Leslie why, as President, Donald Trump was a disaster for workers and their unions.
Then, Fred details that the AFL-CIO supports Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they are fighting every day to lift up working people.
Next, he explains how the 'Blue Wall' has been built by organized labor.
Finally, Fred recaps how he and his fellow Union leaders championed Vice President Kamala Harris as the choice for working class folks in a series of speeches on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention last week.

The website for the AFL-CIO is www.AFLCIO.org and their handle on Facebook, Instagram and X is @AFLCIO.  Fred's handle on X is @STRedmond.

Leslie Marshall Show - 8/27/24 - AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Talks Presidential Election

All workers deserve to be treated better and given better working conditions, more staffing, less mandated overtime, guaranteed 40 hour work weeks, paid leave, good benefits, and so much more.  We're more than numbers on a spreadsheet.  We're human beings and we are intrinsically worth more than what we are being given.

This song is available for free download if you want a copy.


Lyrics:

This one's for the new boss
Same as the old boss
From the APWU Bangor Area Local 536...
Let's go!

When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock and it's overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.
When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock: wages overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.

When you negotiate, remember we're worth more,
Wages, staffing, benefits, conditions, the first four,
Inflation on the rise, it's taxing the work floor,
Some of us get overtime, some are still dirt poor,
We Serve for the People, we ask you what that's worth,
Stacks of packages, letters and flats surge,
Union Gear Thursday, that's with the Black Shirts,
Remember that us workers are United in Craft Work,
Listen, Lou. We're feeling less than half heard,
This time, the Servants will be gettin' the last word.
A decade of concessions, reality sets in,
Inflation outpacin' our wages now and we get thin,
Full time Clerks, working extra to get by,
Used to be the job, that the metric was set by,
Newer hires make the same, workin' at Best Buy,
And that's a fact that we cannot continue to let fly.

When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock and it's overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.
When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock: staffing overdue.
A better contract is what we want from...

You claim we're fully staffed, then give overtime mandates.
You're doing our work, then claimin' we can't take
Another new hire, we're at max capacity,
Delaying the service is not a thing we had to see,
Twenty-eleven, brought the two tier pay scale,
Thirteen years chasin' loose leaf bait trails,
Turnover risin', the new peeps' wage jail,
Enough with the lies, the youth need a raise, they'll 
Walk out if you don't give 'em a reason to stay,
Benefits fall short, with three kids on the way,
You forget we're the future? Yeah, we need to be trained.
Failing to hire more of us now would be a mistake.
Workers gettin' hurt, haven't seen a team lift,
In over two years, you don't seem to give a shit,
Reverting our jobs, every time we miss a bid,
Truth be told, every one of us sick of it,
We won't be silent 'til it's all career
We want a contract by the end of the year
Convert the part timers who are already here
And improve the conditions that are bringing us tears
It comes down to this, you gotta stick to your word,
Violate the contract like you flippin' the bird,
We hold up our end, give us what we deserve,
And stop claiming that our work is your victory, heard?
Yeah...

When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock and it's overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.
When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock: staffing overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.
When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock, wages overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.
When you hit me up for overtime I thought it through.
We're wasting up our lives, working hard for you.
We've been takin' stock: and it's overdue.
A better contract is what we want from you.

Yeah...

We're Worth More

Leslie is joined by Sean O'Brien, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The two discuss the Teamsters winning a groundbreaking joint employer decision against Amazon, United Airlines Teamsters rallying nationwide for a strong new contract, and Costco fleet drivers overwhelmingly authorizing a strike.

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit www.Teamster.org for more information. Follow them on X and Instagram, where their handle is @Teamsters, and “like” them on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Teamsters.
Sean's handle on X is @TeamsterSOB.

Teamsters President Talks Unionizing Workers at Amazon, United Airlines and Costco

AfricaNow! September 4, 2024 Ben Fletcher & the IWW: International Labor Organizing & The Vital Role of Dockworkers

Topic and Guest: As we commemorate Labor Day this week here in the U.S., the show today features a discussion from our archives that not only contextualizes labor as a broader category but also how it leads to specific radical movements.   Professor Peter Cole also focuses on the role of African American labor organizer Ben Fletcher of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (a.k.a. Wobblies) in mobilizing workers in the early 20th century, connecting that movement's similarities to the new wave of unionizing that bypasses mainstream organizations.  In his most recent book Ben Fletcher: The Life & Writings of a Black Wobbly (PM Press, 2021), Dr. Peter Cole tells the story of a hero of the American working class.  As noted in book’s synopsis “In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” …A brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union,....” (From: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1144) 

Dr. Peter Cole, Professor and Graduate Director, Department of History, Western Illinois University.  Professor Cole researches the history of social movements, especially how workers and labor unions organize in ethnically and racially diverse societies. He also maintains scholarly interests in the history of African Americans, deindustrialization, South Africa, cities, technology, popular culture, historical memory, and the maritime world.  He is a Research Associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Cole is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19).  Cole’s most recent book, Ben Fletcher: The Life & Writings of a Black Wobbly (PM Press, 2021), is a much revised and greatly expanded version of one first published in 2006 (Charles H. Kerr Press).  Other books and publications include:  Dockworker Power: Race & Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award; his chapter “Durban Dockers, Labour Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism,” published in Choke Points: Logistics Workers and Solidarity Movements Disrupting the Global Capitalist Supply Chain (Pluto Press, 2018); Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia   (University of Illinois Press, 2007); co-editor of Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Pluto Press, 2017).  Dr. Cole has won multiple awards and grants at WIU such as College of Arts & Science Scholar of the Year, President’s Excellence in Diversity Award (for Teaching) and more.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“RAINCHECK” BY SONNY ROLLINS commemorating his birthday (September 7, 1930—); break--“AFRICA, CENTER OF THE WORLD” BY FELA AND ROY AYERS commemorating Roy Ayers’ birthday (September 10, 1940—); sign-off--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE; closing song--“AFRICA” BY SALIF KEITA commemorating his birthday (August 25, 1949—).

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Sep. 4, 2024 Ben Fletcher & the IWW

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