Work Stoppage

In this episode, Lina and John follow-up on Bath Iron Works and cover Detroit teachers authorizing a strike, a dead worker left under umbrellas in Brazil, Marchallese workers at risk for covid-19 in Arkansas, police surveillance of an organizer, and Dannielle Brown's hunger strike to get answers for her son's death at  Duquesne University. We really packed in the stories this week, and we hope you enjoy the episode!  To support Dannielle Brown you can cashapp her:  $Danniex2 

John and Lina are joined by Lina's friend and professional organizer Eric to learn a thing or two about how organizing a union works on the ground

John and Lina discuss the scummy things police unions are up to, what's going on in Seattle, how we do not understand sports whatsoever, turning employees into mask police, and especially some labor actions happening at schools scheduled to reopen across the country. Hear the bonus episodes at patreon.com/workstoppage

Become a patron for the full episode @ www.patreon.com/workstoppage   In this episode we talk about more health worker strikes, union busting in the marijuana industry, and The Strike For Black Lives

Lina and John discuss a lot of ways that Covid-19 is effecting work conditions and how teachers, child care workers, baristas, and legislature staffers are responding to it.   Support us on Patreon @ www.patreon.com/workstoppage

Become a patron to get the full episode @ https://www.patreon.com/workstoppage   Lina and John follow-up on the Haymarket Pole Collective, discuss cancel culture, a gentrifier moldy jam company, blatant union busting in the UK, and more

John and Lina follow up on the New Orleans trash collectors and discuss an ironworkers strike, a nurse's strike, a stripper's strike, and the right to protest at work. Donate To The Haymarket Pole Collective: https://www.haymarketpole.com/donate Donate To The New Orleans Garbage Collectors: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-essential

Lina and John talk the Atlanta pOliCE sTriKe, dock workers striking across the west coast on Juneteenth, the New Orleans trash collectors strike, and some CHAZ memes Donate to the striking New Orleans trash collectors gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-essential outro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUEU8nMy5mA

Lina and John discuss the intersection of policing and labor, and the hypocrisy of police unions for even existing Donate to help LGBTQ+ black people affected by police violence https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mo2E-M9Bw57ndJrRVegxVhwhI11SWFNPQdQEFVyn02Q/edit?usp=drivesdk

Lina and John explore the current working conditions of McDonalds employees in Michigan, Jersey Shore nurses, and fruit packing workers in Washington. We also tell a couple jokes but not too many, this is a serious show Donate to Familias Unidas Por La Justicia here: http://familiasunidasjusticia.org/en/home/ just click on the "donate" button