Labor Wave Radio Season 2: Feauring adrienne marie brown, Hillary Lazar, and Shane Burley

We reproduce highlights from interviews in our second season of Laborwave. More episodes from Laborwave will be released in the late summer of 2019.

Highlights include clips from our interviews with:

Marianne Garneau on the Women’s Strike. Garneau explains why it is necessary to have specific targets tied to specific demands within a larger strategic plan in order to be effective in any struggle for working class improvements, and how all of these features are absent from the IWS, so far.

Shane Burley on Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union. In addition to lesson from BVWU’s victories we discussed the need to rethink labor organizing under late capitalism, where workers no longer self-identify with particular forms of industry and precarious labor is the norm. BVWU’s successes in some ways points to the need to re-embrace as Shane says, “19th century unionism” in the 21st century.