Jacobin Radio: Labor Rising w/ Sara Nelson & Nina Turner

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The rise of the labor movement in the US constitutes one of the brightest spots on the political horizon. Auto workers were joined by academic workers, actors, writers, hotel workers, UPS teamsters won without striking, and union drives have hit Amazon, Starbucks, universities and other sectors. Are these union drives and strikes opening a new period, igniting a newly energized working class?

Live from the Progressive Central conference held in Chicago before the Democratic National Convention, Jacobin Radio features an all-women panel of labor leaders and champions celebrating "Organized Labor on the Rise: the 2020s and Beyond." This panel, introduced by Alan Minsky and Hartsell Gray of Progressive Democrats of America, opens with Nina Turner on overcoming racism in the labor movement, followed by Saru Jayaraman from One Fair Wage and UC Berkeley’s Food Labor Research Center, Sara Nelson, President of CWA’s flight attendants union, and Stacey Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

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0:00.0	This is Jackabin Radio.
0:03.0	I'm Susie Weisman. The rise of the Lamer Movement in the U.S.
0:18.0	striking and winning spectacular, historic and transformative victories in the last few years with broad support from the population
0:25.4	at large constitutes one of the brightest spots on the political horizon here in the U.S.
0:31.1	Auto workers were joined by academic workers, actors, writers, hotel workers, and UPS
0:37.3	Teamsters won without striking and Union drives have hit Amazon, Starbucks, universities, and many other sectors.
0:46.1	Are these Union drives and strikes opening a new period, igniting a newly energized
0:50.8	working class?
0:51.8	Today we feature an all-woman panel of labor leaders and
0:55.2	champions celebrating organized labor on the rise the 20-20s and beyond at
1:00.2	Progressive Central 2024 held in Chicago at the Chicago Teachers Union
1:05.9	Building just ahead of the Democratic National Convention. This panel introduced
1:11.5	by Alan Minsky and Hartzell Gray of PDA, or Progressive Democrats of America,
1:17.4	opens with Nina Turner on overcoming racism in the labor movement, followed by Saru Jeyarmen from One Fair Wage and UC Berkeley's Food
1:26.5	Labor Research Center, Sero Nelson, President of CWA's Flight Attendants attendance union and Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers
1:36.3	Union. The panel, Progressive Central 2024, was hosted by Progressive Democrats of America in coordination with the Nation magazine
1:45.6	the Arab American Institute and Operation Rainbow Push.
1:49.2	And you're going to hear all of this
2:11.8	when our program returns in just a moment. Now welcoming to the stage right now. We have our next panel and we have with us again, Nina Turner, who is appeared here yesterday, and is with us again because Nina Turner's work right now a major major focus of her work is on recognizing the power of the labor movement and along with PDA the the organization she has started we are somebody is focused
2:38.7	upon something that we all have to get involved in which has not been strong enough in American
2:44.5	society which is if you're not a union member but you're a progressive follow what
2:49.3	your unions are doing in your locality in region, and when they are in negotiations,
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