E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler

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The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.

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0:00.0	Yeah, Z, make your way in here buddy.
0:17.0	We're singling people out now.
0:19.0	This is that sort of event.
0:20.0	All right, this seems about as good a time as any.
0:28.0	Welcome, everybody, all of you, to Tallinn Bar and the Independent Labor Assembly number one. We are the
0:36.8	Independent Labor Club of New York. This is our first public assembly meeting
0:41.4	which we will be doing monthly by monthly moving forward
0:46.7	posing for ourselves with guests and among ourselves
0:50.1	important questions that we feel need answering in this moment in time.
0:55.0	The ILC, we are proud to announce is not just a New York concern any longer.
1:01.0	There is an Arizona chapter that has popped up outside of Phoenix which we're super
1:06.4	excited about. Other chapters who seek to form but we're not sure we have the infrastructure right now to manage things over. to
1:13.4	to manage things all over the country or in Australia as the case may be.
1:18.0	People in Australia want to get something going.
1:20.5	We'll get there. We will get there. We are proud, very proud to have an excellent
1:26.6	guest with us today for this assembly. We have Gregory Butler. Welcome, Greg.
1:30.7	Thank you. It's been a while since you've done a public event, is that right?
1:38.0	About like, God, I mean like almost a decade now.
1:42.0	Almost a decade, so we got a guest a rare guest let's call it
1:46.5	Gregory is a retired retired local union six-away careight carpenter, whoa New York City
1:54.8	District Council of Carpenters, currently a Department of Buildings
1:58.9	Inspector is that right? That is correct yeah. Yeah we D. O. B. fans out there. The webmaster of Gang Box News, which you've been doing for what 25 years now at this point? In one format or another since 1998.
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