Episode 13: Medicare Advantage: What Unions & Retirees Need to Know
- New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees, Inc. – Organization led by Marianne Pizzitola, fighting to protect city retirees health benefits. Check out NYOPSR’s YouTube.
- Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care – Taking the Labor Movement to the forefront in the fight for single payer healthcare, because it’s time to take healthcare off the bargaining table
- “Our Payments, Their Profits: Quantifying Overpayments in the Medicare Advantage System,” Physicians for a National Health Program.
Episode 12: Power and Participation in Negotiations and Politics with Jane McAlevey
- Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations, Jane F. McAlevey and Abby Lawlor, Oxford University Press, 2023.
- “How Open Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules Led to a Union Victory”, Jane McAlevey, The Nation, 4/19/23
- The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time, Gordon Lafer, Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Unlawful: U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns. Economic Policy Institute, 2019, Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, Julia Wolfe, Ben Zipperer, Gordon Lafer, and Lola Loustaunau.
- No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr., Eris Press, 2023
Episode 11: Labor on the Rise? A Conversation with UE’s Carl Rosen
- Top Five UE NEWS Stories of 2022
- Supreme Court Poised to Cripple Right to Strike-UE
- Union Pressure Wins Small Improvement in Labor Board Funding – UE
- The Union Membership Rate Has Dropped to a Historic Low. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. In These Times, C.M. Lewis, 1/21/23.
- Being Laid Off is Devastating: Yet Society Never Measures That Toll, Los Angeles Times, Les Leopold. 1/17/23.
Episode 10: Millionaire’s Tax on the Ballot in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Teachers Association: What is the Fair Share Amendment?
- Fair Share Amendment – Mass. Budget and Policy Center
- The Fair Share Amendment | RaiseUp Massachusetts
- Fair Share Amendment | A Fair Tax System in Massachusetts
Episode 9: Inflation: What Workers Need to Know
Inflation: Reframing the Narrative, Sam Gindin, The Bullet, April 5, 2022
Who Pays for Inflation?, Samir Sonti, New Labor Forum, 2022.
Inflation and Your Next Union Contract, Samir Sonti, Labor Notes, July 8, 2022
Red the Fed: The Federal Reserve’s Response to Inflation Is Bad for Workers — But It Doesn’t Need to Be, Samir Sonti, Jacobin, September 7, 2022.
Episodes 7 & 8: The Jim Crow South + Listener Qs
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Adolph Reed Jr.
Order from Verso Books
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear.
They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. — New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation” — takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.
Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Thanks to his personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people.
The South unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its contradictions and weakness, and the social order that would replace it.
The South is more than a memoir or a history. Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America’s second peculiar institution and the future created in its wake.
The Brotherhood of Man
Animated Cartoon Against Prejudice and Racism (1946)
Watch here
The Brotherhood of Man is an animated cartoon based on the pamphlet “The Races of Mankind,” by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish. It explains that there are no basic differences between the races of the world, and uses small green demons to caricature prejudice and racial hatred. Relates the history of mankind to point out that dissimilarities in peoples result from superficial environmental influences.
Episode 6: Why The Supreme Court Matters to Working People
“Major Questions Doctrine”
Check out these excellent articles from Professor Jenny Breen:
- Delegitimizing the Administrative State
- Right-Wing Supreme Court Imperils Democratic Self-Governance