Resurgent Labor Organizing
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff's updates include the 60+ people killed by the U.S. military in what it claimed were "narco boats," Socialist Catherine Connolly wins the Presidency in Ireland, Canada hit with nationwide postal workers strike alongside a strike of the entire public workforce (51,000) in Alberta, Canada, and finally a new poll showing that 67% of U.S. college students look favorably or neutrally on socialism. In the second half of today's show, Professor Wolff interviews Robert Ovetz and Kevin van Meter on effective new ways of organizing workers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:27.0 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:34.0 | I have, as usual, a few short announcements. |
| 0:37.3 | First, I will be giving our every other month global |
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| 2:31.3 | of the labor union related research that I present here on this program. |
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