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Work Stoppage
by workstoppage
Weekly Labor News from a Revolutionary perspective. Deeper labor analysis and history available @ http://patreon.com/workstoppage Website: http://workstoppagepod.com
Episodes
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Sciopero Internazionale Ep 4 - Antonio Mazzeo
Comrade Matteo brings us another great interview from the struggle in Italy and the broader Mediterranean region with Antonio Mazzeo, freedom flotilla participant, teacher, activist, and founder of the Observatory on the militarization of schools and universities. Originally in Italian for CSA...
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Overtime: The Master's Tools EP 1 - Marx and Machines PREVIEW
In the first episode of our long-discussed series on how technology impacts the working class under capitalism, we go way back to the man himself. Much of the discourse around the development of "AI" and other forms of machine learning is completely without historical context and mystifies rather...
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Ep 328 - Tenants Need Unions Too
We start our headlines with one of the largest bargaining units we have ever seen filing for election with 1199SEIU across NY state. Other headlines from NYU, Minneapolis Public Schools, European Dockworkers fighting for Palestine, and the American child labor industry. We start our main stories…
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Ep 327 - Real Unions Don't Need AI Signs
AutoZone Worker Support Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-nate-and-the-autozone-union Mega headlines section this week with stories from Mass General Brigham, Prime Healthcare, Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, Sam Adams Boston Brewery, AutoZone, CUPE, the AFA, Colombia's social movements, the...
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Ep 326 - Lawless Lawmen
We've got headlines this week from Amazon, Samsung, Howard House Manufacturing, the entire French economy, Bradford White, CharterCARE, NYC traffic enforcement, and Allina Health. For our first main story, pharmacists have been organizing at CVS over the last few years and are sounding the alarm…
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Ep 325 - Organizing Orgrimmar
The whole crew is back this week, and we start out with headlines from across the US and the world. We've got stories from Prime Healthcare nurses, Boston Medical Center, Rhode Island Amazon drivers, Brazilian postal workers, Dutch public transit workers, Kenyan healthcare workers, Frontier...
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Ep 324 - Self-Driving Wage Theft
Happy Labor Day! This week we touch on many aspects of the international gig work industry as well as the hidden labor behind "autonomous vehicles". Other stories we cover include repression of immigrants in Canada, how AI isn't replacing workers at all, tech and video game workers, and the...
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Ep 323 - Chatbots Aren't Therapists
Our main stories this week start with an investigation by Capital and Main into Kaiser Permanente's deployment of AI chatbots in their mental health division, to the alarm of actual mental health professionals. The struggle at Starbucks hit a new level as Starbucks Workers United announced an...
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Ep 322 - No Fake Unions
Headlines this week from the NYC school system, Hyundai Motors, Oxnard berry farms, Alamo Drafthouse, Sam Adams, Brown University, the University of Michigan, and the National Park Service. We start our main stories with a bombshell investigation by NY Focus into the International Brotherhood of...
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Ep 321 - Scamazon: The Astroturf Company
We start with an update on the international struggle for Palestine with another major dockworker strike aiming to cripple arms imports to Israel. Our headlines continue with Codelco, the Australian Fair Work Commission, the New Brunswick Building Trades, Domino's, Ikea, Amazon, Open Kitchens,...
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Interview: NALC Convention 2026
Recently the National Association of Letter Carriers held their national convention. This is their first convention since a contact similar to the one they voted down was forced on them by a federal mediator. To help us understand how the convention worked and what happened we are joined by…
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Ep 320 - Public-Private Punishment
Our headlines this week start abroad, following up on the protests sweeping Argentina and the struggle against unsafe working conditions in the European heatwave. We also have headlines from Amazon, the Royal Observatory, Maine Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, and the NYC Public School...
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Ep 319 - Keffiyeh Spiderman
This week starts with headlines from Tokens(dot)com, Taylor Farms, the wage theft industry, WestJet, Corewell Health, Brown University Health, the University of California, Microsoft, and the Labour Party. We've got two roundups this week, first discussing several recent organizing struggles in...
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Ep 318 - ICE, Sugar, Justice
Dropkick Murphys Union Shirt: https://dropkickmurphys.store/products/dropkick-murphys-x-krm-union-charity-t-shirt-black Catching up on more stories from our break, our main topic this week is the resurgence of protests against ICE in the wake of more murders against immigrant workers in Maine and...
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Sciopero Internazionale Ep 3 - Genoa 25 Years Later
Episode on CSA Baraonda: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157530096 Comrade Matteo comes to us once again to not only give us a history lesson on the brutal repression of people in Italy fighting global imperialism 25 years ago, but how the left in Italy today is remembering those days and trying to...
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Ep 317 - Summer of Smoke
UVW-CWA Support Bundle: https://itch.io/jam/game-industry-hardship-fund We're back from break with a super sized episode! We start with headlines from USPS, PECO, Trader Joe's, Starbucks, Hachette, the University of Kansas, and Microsoft. Our big story this week is the attacks on the UAW by the…
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Feed Drop: Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?
10 years before the catastrophic train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the deadliest rail disasters in North American history took place in the Canadian town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. On July 6, 2013, an unattended freight train that had been parked on the tracks...
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Ep 316 - Union Busting is Not Punk Rock
AI Boss Psychosis: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai Happy Maru's Birthday to all! We start this week with headlines from Swedish Medical Center, Ascend Cannabis, PECO, Ubisoft, the University of Tennessee, GEO Group, ASML, and Ford. The New Republic reports…
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Ep 315 - Summer Strike Fest
We start with headlines from TF Green International Airport, the National Park Service, Wizards of the Coast, Seattle Art Museum, San Jose State University, Lucid, GM, and Quantic Dream. We've got a big round up of recent news for the Teamsters, their epic battle against Amazon, and the end of…
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Ep 314 - Free the Minnesota 15
Headlines this week from: St Mary's in Chicago, Stanford University, the UAW Convention, Labor Notes, the Rochester Minnesota bus system, TF Green Airport, Embassy Suites Seattle, Salon 1884, and Safeway. The uprising in Bolivia reached a new pitch this week as an agreement was signed with the...
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Ep 313 - World Cup Walkout
We start this week's episode with headlines from St Mary's hospital (Chicago and Madison), Uber, Starbucks, Amazon, Target Field, Hyundai, the Durham Miners Association, and Walmart. Our first main story follows up on the strike by UAW workers at American Axle, who have won a major new contract....
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Ep 312 - Labor "Nativism" Hurts All Workers
https://theconversation.com/when-ice-ramped-up-enforcement-us-born-workers-didnt-see-any-economic-gains-283011 We start with headlines checking in on the workers of Bolivia, the American Axle strike, union doctors in Providence, electrolysis workers in Washington, and the broader problems of the…
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Ep 311 - Until Everybody's Free
We've got a big show this week, starting with headlines from American Axle, Spring Glass, Starbucks Korea, REI, Ball State University, Harvard, Hearst Newspapers, Rockstar Games, and the Brazilian working class. Our main story this week is discussing the struggle by workers inside and outside to...
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Ep 310 - Long Live the Wiphala Revolution
Smaller show this week with the holiday and an illness among the hosts, but we persevere and have the news for you as always. We start with headlines from American Axle, Nexteer, Allison, Amazon, the LIRR, REI, Starbucks, Delaney Hall Detention Center, and the working classes of Italy and...
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Better Read Ep 1 - Slavery, the Industrial Revolution, and Primary Expropriation PREVIEW
In this new series we aim to talk about topics that are a little deeper than we can get into on a main feed episode based on some of the things that we are reading outside what we use for our main feed episodes. Each one will be self-contained and Patron Exclusive! There will still be previews in...
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Ep 309 - Presidente Pollo Incapaz
A week of major strike action as well as victories. We start with headlines from UC, American Axle, Belgian trade unions, Texas State University, Penn State University, Starbucks, and the government of Virginia. Samsung workers could shut down one of the largest and richest corporations of the...
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Ep 308 - Close the Camps
The US war on Iran and resulting war on the rest of the world is a constant theme in this week's headlines. We've got stories from World Cup workers, Spirit Airlines, German and Italian students, DeepMind, the University of California, SAG-AFTRA, Indiana University, Stanford, and Cornell. For our...
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Sciopero Internazionale Ep 2 - May Day in Italy
Text of the episode: https://tinyurl.com/WSSI2TXT Matteo brings us another wonderful report from Italy and the Mediterranean region on the days leading up to May Day, as well as what happened on the day itself. He tells the story of Liberation Day, the defense of the flotilla to Palestine, and…
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Ep 307 - May Day Strong
PAPER: https://ourpapernow.org/ Boycott REI! https://boycottrei.com/ May Day was the biggest it's been in years, and we spend much of the episode discussing the major protests in the US and around the world for International Workers Day. Workers in South Carolina spent their May Day picketing…
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Ep 306 - No Work, No School, No Shopping
May Day is this week! Nationwide shutdown, bring your community together and hit the ruling class where it hurts, the bottom line! Getting to our regular headlines, we have stories from Starbucks, Harvard, REI, the University of California, Samsung, Bangladeshi gig workers, Portuguese nurses, and...
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Ep 305 - Unions on the Moon
Headlines on this 20th of April start with the breaking news of the change in Labor Secretary. Then we've got stories from Amazon, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Texas Tech University, Columbia University, Long Island Concrete, Florida's hospitality industry, and NASA. Over 30,000 building workers…
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Ep 304 - The War Economy
This week's headlines include: Chicago nurses, Starbucks, Philz Coffee, Apple, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Illinois Springfield, ProPublica, and the California Faculty Association. We start our main stories discussing the recent victorious strike at JBS in Colorado and...
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Unlocked Interview: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers
This week we are excited to bring listeners an interview that brings together two of our most urgent areas of discussion on our show: union democracy and the fight against ICE terror. We're honored to be joined by Leo and Kevin, two organizers with CREW, the Caucus of Rank and File Electrical...
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Ep 303 - No More Companies
We've got a long one this week with so much going on. We start with an extra long headlines section checking in with Portland Community College, the University of Washington, the University of Illinois, Microsoft, the Daily Wire, Waffle House, Webasto, DHL, Grubhub, and the NFL. Following an…
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Interview Preview: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers
This week we are excited to bring listeners an interview that brings together two of our most urgent areas of discussion on our show: union democracy and the fight against ICE terror. We're honored to be joined by Leo and Kevin, two organizers with CREW, the Caucus of Rank and File Electrical...
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Ep 302 - No Kings, No Wars, No ICE!
We start out with a reportback from Dan and Lina who went to their local No Kings protests and discuss the energy behind the call for a May Day general strike. We've got headlines this week from Canada Post, AirTrain, United Airlines, TSA, Western Washington University, Starbucks, Amazon, and...
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Interview: Highlander Charter School Union
Late last year, teachers at the Highlander Charter School in Providence, Rhode Island launched the state's first ever strike at a charter school. We have covered a lot of teachers strikes on our show, but strikes at charters have been few and far between. Just as with teachers at traditional…
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Ep 301 - Coworker Politics
We start this week's episode with headlines from CBS, ProPublica, Portland Community College, REI, Starbucks, Corewell Health, the WNBA, Atlassian Software, and the Tornel Rubber Company. Our first story checks in on the strike by Colorado meatpackers at JBS in a fight for safety and dignity on…
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Ep 300 - 6 Years of Labor News
Somehow it's been 300 whole episodes since we started this show. But as long as work continues stopping, we will keep discussing it! We've got headlines from the MST, Belgian trade unions, Portland Community College, REI, Starbucks, Amazon, American Axle, and AFGE. JBS workers in Colorado are on...
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Ep 299 - Stop The War, Stop ICE Terror!
The US war on Iran continues to create an emergency for the working class worldwide, and we start by discussing the need for workers to enter the struggle to end it. We've got headlines this week from LabCorp, Mercedes, JBS, Home Depot, DHL Express, Patagonia, Crumbs & Whiskers and The Holy…
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Ep 298 - No War On Iran!
Texas IBEW Member Legal Fee Funds: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-our-union-sister-home https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-Brian-IBEW-Brother Our episode this week is a bit lighter on labor stories as the launch of yet another war by the US takes up most of our intro. When we do get back into…
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Ep 297 - An Irrational System
SWOC Hardship Fund: https://opencollective.com/student-workers-of-columbia We start with headlines this week from Columbia University, Penn, Volkswagen, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Mission Hospital, and the nation of Argentina. For our first major story this week, we discuss recent reporting…
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Ep 296 - Struggle is a School
Our episode begins with some silliness, but we do get to labor headlines. We've got stories from Ubisoft, Taco Bell, Kaiser Permanente, Ford, Starbucks, and big protests in Argentina and India. The nurses strike in New York *almost* came to an end this week, but nurses at NY Presbyterian are...
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Sciopero Internazionale Ep 1 - CALP Dockworkers Are Sand in the Machine
In our newest series led by our Italian reporter Matteo we get to hear from a worker organizer, Romeo, of the Feb 6, 2026 international strike of Mediterranean dockworkers against war and for Palestine. CALP or the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers is a militant collective of workers who have...
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Ep 295 - May Day is Coming
We start with headlines from Waymo, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco teachers, Los Angeles teachers, REI, Seven Stars Bakery, Starbucks, and the state of Nebraska. New York nurses have been on strike for over a month, we discuss the state of their strike and the possible deals announced on…
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Ep 294 - A New Kind of Politics
Once again our main focus this week is the struggle against ICE's reign of terror. Beyond Minneapolis, the working class outrage at the crimes of DHS exploded into a nationwide shutdown. In our main story we discuss the implications of this growing movement for trade unionism and the broader...
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Ep 293 - A Day of Truth and Freedom
The eyes of the nation have been on Minneapolis all week, and our main story this week is on Friday's general strike and the need to expand it. Before that, we start with headlines from the Louvre, Cayuga Medical Center, TikTok, Wafler Farms, and the AAUP. For our main regular labor stories, we...
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UNLOCKED Overtime Episode 43 - The General Strike in US History Pt 3
In light of the Jan 23, 2026 Twin City general strike we are unlocking this episode so people can look at another general strike in Twin City history. We start this episode off in Toledo but in the second half we look at Minneapolis. We're diving back into labor history with a return to our short...
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Ep 292 - Strike Against ICE
Folks are rising up across the country outraged by ICE's reign of terror. Our main story is on the popular fightback in Minnesota, but first we have headlines from ArcelorMittal, Ford, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portland State University, Blinkit, Barnes and Noble, and Kaiser Permanente. We...
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Ep 291 - ICE Off Our Streets
Our labor news is somewhat overshadowed this week by the horrific murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis and the subsequent eruption of popular outrage nationwide. When we do get to our headlines, we've got stories from North Carolina Public Schools, the National Institutes of Health, NYC Hospitals,...
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