Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: A Wave of Worker Organizing w/ Steven Greenhouse

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Suzi talks to longtime labor reporter and author Steven Greenhouse about the exciting new moment for labor in the US. Steven says the unionizing victories at Amazon and now 81 Starbucks stores—as well as the spread of union drives to many other workplaces in retail, higher education, the media, and healthcare—signify a moment so promising for labor that we’d have to go back to the organizing in the 1930s to see anything comparable.

Suzi and Ilya Matveev, of Openleft.ru and the Russian research group Public Sociology Laboratory, discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine twelve weeks in. We get Ilya’s analysis of the domestic situation at home, politically and economically, for the regime and for the population. While polls show widespread support for Putin’s “military operation,” reports note that support for the war is tepid, not enthusiastic. Most analysts say the country is evenly divided between support and dissent regarding the war, though propaganda and penalties for speaking out influence that figure, as Putin has taken an increasingly hard line against dissent. Ilya Matveev unpacks what the polling does or doesn’t show, and we get details of the impact of economic sanctions on the population, the state of industry and the economy, the divisions in the population and among the elite – and what losing the war might mean for Putin’s hold on power.

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0:00.0	This is Jacket and Radio. I'm Suzy Weissman. On today's program we begin with the exciting
0:14.7	new moment for labor in the United States with labor reporter and writer Stephen Greenhouse
0:20.6	author of beaten down worked up the past present and future of American labor. Stephen says
0:26.1	the unionizing victories at Amazon and now 81 Starbucks stores as well as the spread of union
0:32.6	drives to many workplaces in retail higher education the median healthcare signifies a moment
0:39.0	so promising for labor that we'd have to go back to the organizing in the 1930s to see anything
0:44.7	comparable. We'll get the details and the big picture from Stephen Greenhouse. We then turn
0:50.2	to Russia's war in Ukraine 12 weeks in. Ilya Menev, a young researcher specializing in
0:56.7	Russian politics and political economy, joins us with his analysis of the domestic situation at
1:02.4	home in Russia, Putin has taken an increasingly hard line against dissent and while polls show wide
1:08.6	spread support for Putin's so-called military operation. Most reports note that support for the
1:14.9	war is tepid, not enthusiastic. Ilya Menev unpacks what the polling does or doesn't show and we
1:21.4	also get details of the impact of economic sanctions on the population, the state of industry and the
1:27.2	economy, the divisions in the population and among the elite and because Russia is losing the war
1:33.5	we also ask what this means for Putin's hold on power. All this when our program returns in just a
1:40.3	moment. This is Jacobin Radio. I am Suzy Weisman and we're going to begin today on a very
1:55.9	bright note. In fact, the brightest on the horizon in the United States these days, maybe even in the
2:00.6	world. And that is the exciting new battles and successes for labor. And this is something that for
2:08.2	those of us who have been following labor for the longest time, probably didn't even imagine
2:13.4	possible. It's at the level in my view of enthusiasm and excitement of something probably like the 1930s.
2:20.7	But we'll go there and we'll talk about that. I'm very thrilled to have Stephen Greenhouse back
2:26.7	with us. It's been a long time. Last time I talked to Steve, he was the kitty and important and probably
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