The Campaign to Bust Chicago’s Only Bookstore Union
It Could Happen Here
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4.3 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Mia talks with Ez and Finnly of the Seminary Co-op Booksellers Union about black mold, bad management, and how union busting works like an abusive relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | CallZone Media. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to Iqadap here, a podcast where Union Good and not everything that is called co-op is good. |
| 0:18.1 | Sometimes they're not actually really co-ops. |
| 0:25.0 | I am your host, Mia Wong, and today we are joined by the people struggling under the tyrannical fist of a co-op thing that shouldn't be |
| 0:32.0 | possible, and yet somehow. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:37.5 | So we were talking today with |
| 0:39.8 | Ez and Finley, |
| 0:41.4 | who are booksellers at the |
| 0:42.8 | Seminary Co-op in Chicago. |
| 0:45.2 | And yeah, we are |
| 0:46.7 | welcoming the union back to the show. |
| 0:49.5 | And dear God, |
| 0:51.3 | what a disaster. |
| 0:54.5 | What a year it has been. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, it's really great to me, fan. |
| 0:58.0 | I wish we were back with slightly better news or more movements since we were last here, certainly. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.4 | Because when we last spoke, we had just sort of theatrically announced to our management that we were an organized shop with the IWW and we were going to be bargaining with them for better wages and humane working conditions for us all. |
| 1:25.4 | And they were like, yeah, you're a union. |
| 1:27.5 | We so recognize that. And then they like, yeah, you're a union. We're so recognized that. |
| 1:29.3 | And then they have sat on their hands ever since. |
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