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The Checkout

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Sep 14, 2022 • 50min

Episode 133: Why BCTGM Local 100G Workers Are On Strike At Ingredion

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Sep 7, 2022 • 51min

Episode 132: Roundtable Conversation on How Trade Spend and Slotting Fees Shape The Grocery Industry

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Jul 21, 2022 • 55min

Episode 131: Lauren Ornelas on Why Amy’s Kitchen Workers Are Organizing

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Jul 15, 2022 • 28min

Episode 130: Why Trader Joe’s Workers Want A Union

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Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 11min

Episode 129: Tevita Uhatafe on the Labor Movement

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Jun 29, 2022 • 28min

Episode 128: Tommy Carden of Warehouse Workers For Justice

Episode #128 Notes1:00 - 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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Jun 21, 2022 • 41min

Episode 127: Andrew deCoriolis of Farm Forward

Episode #127 Notes1:00 - 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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Jun 16, 2022 • 20min

Episode 126: Kamal Bell of Sankofa Farms

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Jun 9, 2022 • 27min

Episode 125: Grocery Update- Meat Industry Accountability & Profit Inflation

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Jun 7, 2022 • 35min

Episode 124: Johnnie Kallas Talks Data and the Labor Upsurge

Episode #124 Notes1:00 - 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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