Thursday, March 1, 2012

Labor Pains

Click here to access audio link to 55 minute program from KPFA (Berkeley, California).

If your life is time constrained, you might want to listen to this as you perform some mindless chore. 
Occupy Wall Street has brought the issue of class inequality to the forefront of American politics in a way that unions have not. Hence, organized labor and the Occupy movement would appear to be natural allies, but their relationship is not seamless.  Radical Occupy participants and union organizers Angela MacWhinnie and Adrian Maldonado talk about successful collaborations between trade unions and Occupy, the places where friction has emerged, and the challenges that the Occupy movement faces in reaching out to most working class people.
I found the comments of the San Francisco Bay labor activist to be particularly interesting.