Imagine that a hospital is looking for a type of blood. Uh, to be shipped to it and it's on, on the ship that I'm working on, but it's pouring down raining lightning. We can't stop working. We got to get that, that box off so that that hospital can continue to save the people lives that they've been working on Do you know what the Public Utilities District is? Or what it does? A lot of people don't. if you don't have water, you don't have wastewater, you don't have garbage service, it's anarchy.
Nobody is going to be happy. here's the problem. Are enough of your workers in regular physical pain enough? That they are causing a line at your nurse's office to get like Tylenol and ibuprofen I dug deep into my storage unit to get paycheck stubs and to get just to see how bad it was. Yeah. put me into a deep depression because I says, Oh my God, look at this fresh prints of Bel Air check stub.
I really did make less now on something I just finished then in 1989. 2 million acres burned in the state, uh, but surprisingly less than 50 structures. Compare that to 2020 where we lost over 3, 000. We had an urban conflagration. We burned an entire town down Waffle House advertises that we are a family, but why are you not treating me like one? Your family doesn't have to wonder where their next meal is going to come from because their job took money out of their check for a meal.
They You're listening to the labor radio podcast, weekly highlights from some of the nearly 200 labor radio and podcast shows in the labor radio podcast, net, where you can check them all [email protected]. On today's show John Dan and Lena discussed the east coast dock workers strike on the work stoppage. Podcast. Cast. What. The Clark. P. The U D. The working. Deliverance. And Southwest Washington podcast explains. Why you should care.
Then on the Heartland labor forum, Emily Burger author of on the clock. Alison Jones and Sherry Thomas M Teamsters, local three 90 nines casting department in Hollywood. On the WGAS third and Fairfax podcast. On the PFF podcast, the official podcast. of the Portland firefighters association. Firefighters local 43 in Portland, Oregon. PFF. President Isaac McLennan And OSF FC president Carl Koenig discuss the recent firefighters convention.
And our final segment is from the final episode of the labor force podcast is Mike stricken. signs off. Hey, Mike, thanks for all the great work. And we wish you the very best. That's all ahead on this week's edition of the labor radio podcast, weekly, and as usual, we'll begin with Harold's quick. Look at some of the shows we couldn't get into this week show on shows. You should know. Thanks, Chris.
Wow, folks, this has been an incredible week of workers standing up for themselves and standing together. I know Chris and Patrick have picked some great shows for the weekly, but there's just no way to cover all of it. So here's a few more shows you should know that have released over the past week. Economics for the People looks at who is funding the Republican and Democratic parties, as well as housing policy, rent control, and affordability in the Great Plains.
Rick and Brian discuss the looming ILA strike, Unite Here hotel workers on strike, Starbucks workers continuing struggle, the machinists strike at Boeing, and more. And more on We Rise Fighting. Jacob discusses the lead up to the ILA strike, the importance of mental health support, Huntsville's municipal runoff, and more on the Valley Labor Report. The UAW 1700 podcast reaches out to Sterling Heights members in the wake of Stellantis firing of 177 supplemental employees.
And Steve Murphy discusses who's behind more than a thousand Qantas engineers walking off the job on Stick Together. And that's just a few of them. Want to see links to all the latest labor radio shows and podcasts released over the past week? Search the hashtag laborradionet on Facebook, Instagram, and, yeah, still calling it Twitter. Back to you, Chris. Hey, this is Bob oti from Million Dollar Organizer.
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So this week we're likely to see one of the most impactful strikes of the year or maybe even of quite a few years where Handling about 43 percent of US imports the ILA Up the East Coast and down to Texas are set to strike on Tuesday, the day that this episode comes out. 45, 000 workers are basically set to shut shit down to get a contract that makes up for the lower gains of the previous six year contract, and protect workers from job losses due to automation.
I wince every time I see that six year contract figure. That's rough.
Yeah, yeah, well, I was actually just listening to President Daggett earlier, and that was originally part of the, you know, the, the profit margins were low in the early years, or something like that, or something he was saying, and so that was one of the concessions that they made was longer contracts, and so now that's a vestige, but, uh, We had reported earlier in the year about how ports were instituting automation that divide previous contract language, but,
uh, this itself has invigorated workers to stand up for the first time since 1977. And we actually have a clip from online, from the online podcast where, uh, where a worker makes it pretty clear why this strike is happening. We know that we're in a fight. If, if, if they want to fight, then a war is what they're going to get. I've been in Longshoreman years. And one thing I do know to be true, gas has went up. The cost of living has constantly went up.
And, and, and, and throughout these 23 years that I've been on the waterfront, we've only asked for 2, 3, or maybe 5 over the course of the contract. We've done our part. And we're, now we're asking Hillary, you do your part because during the pandemic, we never stopped working. Imagine that a hospital is looking for a type of blood. Uh, to be shipped to it and it's on, on the ship that I'm working on, but it's pouring down raining lightning. We can't stop working.
We got to get that, that box off so that that hospital can continue to drive and save the people lives that they've been working on. So that's where we're at with it. And we just want to be respected for it. And I think it's high time that we demand that. And we, we, we're long overdue automation is serious because when you bring new automation in to take away from our jobs, you don't, you don't make means for that person. To have a job.
They're pushed over to the side and they can't do their job that they've been accustomed to doing. What we're asking is to allow our people to continue to work in this industry without going to get an extra job to make ends meet. Allow us to take care of our families like we've been doing with the wages that we currently have in place. Continue that trend. That's all we're asking for. And if we have to sit out two days, two weeks, two months, we're prepared to do that. Really well said.
I mean that was so many good sentiments. I particularly liked the part where he said, I mean it was just like a passing thing, but he said if you bring automation in, to take away part of our job and you don't make a means for that person to still have a job and you just kick them off to the side. And I was like, that's like so well spoken because man, like workers don't hate automation. They just want it to make their jobs easier in a way where they still have a job and their job is good.
They don't, they just don't want it to be pitted against them. And so to round this out, we're gonna actually hear from President Harold Daggett as to the actual repercussions of the strike and what they expect to happen. These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down. You know what's gonna happen? I'll tell you. First week, be all over the news every night. Boom, boom. Second week, boom, boom.
Guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships. They get laid off. Third week, malls start closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't sell clothes. They can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They go out of business. Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in. They lose their job. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now.
Because now they realize how important our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me, I'm putting a Taff Hartley on you. Go ahead. Taff Hartley means I have to go back to work for 90 days. That's a cooling off period. Do you think when I go back for 90 days, those men are going to go to work on that pier? It's going to cost the money, the company's money to pay their salaries What are you? It went from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight. They're going to be like this.
Who's going to win here in the long run? You're better off sitting down, and let's get a contract, and let's move on with this world. And in today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does. Tell him, Harold. Solidarity. Solidarity, everybody. Hello, working people of Southwest Washington. You're listening to Episode 42 of Working to Live in Southwest Washington, produced by the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council.
You thought we were done, didn't you folks? Well, we're back! you might've noticed that there's a little something in the air right now. Yeah. It's turning into fall, things are getting colder, but also, it's election season! And while everyone is focused on what's happening at the national or the statewide level, we've got some very important offices we'll be voting on right here in Clark County. Including commissioners on the Clark Public Utilities District.
Do you know what the Public Utilities District is? Or what it does? A lot of people don't. That's why I'm really glad we have James O'Neill, who's running for PUD District 1, here with us today to explain things. Thanks so much for joining us, James. Oh, thanks for having me. So, James, yeah, let's dive right in. What is PUD? The PUD, what does it do? They provide utilities.
We have about 240, 000 customers here in Clark County, and they provide a hour and water, and it's a nonprofit it's customer owned. Uh, I tend to think privately owned PUDs. Lose focus on the customer. Um, so it's nice, especially with the staffing here at the Clark PUD. We have so many people that work for the PUD here that live in our community. The staff is also taking care of their friends and family here. The Clark PUD is actually one of the top PUDs in the country.
There's three sitting commissioners for district one, two, and three. What they do is they, uh, they set policy, they approve rates, they oversee the financial oversight. They oversee the general manager, which. She has a phenomenal job, general manager oversees the entire PD staff and large expenses. We approve that. What brought you to this? You said you have worked in the power industry. You've been working with a credit union. Why run for PUD commissioner?
I am lifelong resident in Clark County. I've always wanted to run for public service. My wife and I had an agreement. Um, when the kids go to college, you can, before you take on a second job. And I can understand why now, 18 years. That was with the Sherwin Williams company. The last six of those, I was business development for the wastewater side. So I would travel all over the Pacific Northwest.
I would work alongside engineering firms, municipality engineers, um, plant managers for treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants. I would help with the coding recommendations for concrete and steel for high corrosive areas. So I would visit a lot of dams. And a bulk of my job was to deal with water storage tanks.
If you go to my website, you'll, in my industry background, you'll see that, uh, one of my almost complex projects that I was a part of in 2017 with the Eagle Creek fire, it got national recognition because it's an obstacle that's never been faced before. We had contractors weld out a boom, uh, door, and the next day they were going to start sandblasting the existing coating off the water tank. The next day the fire started and engulfed the tank with smoke.
So that seven week job turned into like, it seemed like four months. But during my six years there, I got a taste of the complexity it takes to run and operate a city, a county and taking care of the people that live there. You know, if you don't have water, you don't have wastewater, you don't have garbage service, it's anarchy. Nobody is going to be happy. I got to be part of all the projects from its inception to completion from the budgeting process.
what I love about the PD commissioner job here is I get an opportunity to serve my entire community of where I grew up community. That's always been good to me and my family. So thank you, James O'Neill, running for Clark Public Utilities District in District 1. And thank you, working people, for joining us on another episode of Working to Live in Southwest Washington, produced by the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council. Hey, this is Dan Golodner from Tales From the Ruther Library.
I'm proud to be part of the Labor Radio podcast network with more than 200 labor radio shows and podcasts from across the country and around the world. The Labor Radio Podcast Network where working people speak. Find [email protected]. You are listening to 90. 1 FM, KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio. Stay tuned for the Heartland Labor Forum. Radio that talks back to the boss. Tonight our guest is Emily Gunstelberger, author of On the Clock.
While on layoff from her newspaper reporting job, Gunstelberger will explain why she was curious enough to take other jobs in various industries. How did she do at each of these jobs? She'll tell us that too. Welcome, Emily. Thank you so much for having me. I wanted to start off by asking you, what were you thinking when you devised this plan? Did you do a lot of research ahead of time of what industries you wanted to investigate? Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I'd always, I mean, the impetus for the book was that, was Amazon. I was super curious about what it was like inside an Amazon warehouse. And then I, the other two, I thought a lot about, but I wanted to get down to things that Amazon and fast food in particular are a pretty good look at what the future of work is going to be like. That's sort of where things are going. Uh, it, they're the things that can't be outsourced, essentially. Like Amazon, you can't outsource Amazon.
You can't outsource McDonald's. You can outsize call centers a little bit, but at the time that I was writing the book, one out of every 25 jobs in the U. S. was in a call center and it was as highly metricized and Absolutely. The stories you hear online are absolutely crazy about call centers, what they do to your mental health. Uh, so I picked that I picked one for physical, uh, physical stamina, one for mental stamina, and one for like customer stamina, I guess.
all 3 jobs that you took, uh, that was Amazon, uh, McDonald's, and, um, the call center for AT& T. Is that the name of the company? The company Convergys? Yeah, the company's name was Convergys. Convergys. the same name anymore, or it might not exist anymore. Yeah, well, all three of those jobs made it difficult to talk and socialize with coworkers. So what did that feel like? Uh, pretty bad. It felt very, it was very isolating.
Um, at Amazon, you were just never within, like, they have their algorithms. So I was a picker in the Amazon warehouse, which meant It was in 2015, so it was a not robotics facility, which meant that there was just this huge maze of shelves that went on sort of to infinity, no matter which way you looked. It was really cool looking, but you were usually out there kind of alone.
And the algorithms that Amazon used to steer you around this thing, because you were following the map on your scanner, kept you out of touch. Like, it kept you from running into other people to talk. Uh, the call center, you were on your phone all the time. It was, they timed your breaks very, very, very closely and would get in your face if you were in the bathroom too long. So, uh, talking to other people was not a possibility.
And the McDonald's store, It was just you were in front of customers all the time, uh, and you cannot talk when there is a line or the customers will punish you for management. I believe me. This is something unusual. painkiller vending machines. Why would someone need, uh, painkillers on their job where they walk 15 miles a day?
I remember the first time I saw one of the painkiller vending machines, I had a conversation with my husband and this conversation is sort of like reflective also of a lot of conversations I had with my coworkers, which is that like, Oh, yeah, no, the pain didn't, I mean, the pain medicine vending machines are kind of nice, right? Because otherwise you'd just be buying your own. Which is true. It would hurt regardless.
I'm sure the people at FedEx and UPS also hurt probably as much as Amazon workers. And they don't, and they bring their own pain medicine. But it is a sign that they're doing something wrong. You know what I mean? It's just like, alright, are enough of, here's the problem. Are enough of your workers in regular physical pain enough? That they are causing a line at your nurse's office to get like Tylenol and ibuprofen and stuff. What is the answer?
Should the answer be like, I don't know, think about how much work you're putting on to people, give people more breaks, you know, do anything except here, let's just make it more efficient to hand out the pain medicine. Emily's book is titled on the clock. Welcome to Third and Fairfax, the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America West.
I'm your host, Brian Gary. back by popular demand, we have members of the Hollywood Teamsters Local 399 this time from the casting department Teamsters Local 399 and the New York counterparts and Teamsters Local 817 began contract negotiating with the studios on August 26th for casting directors.
Associate casting directors and the newly organized casting assistance host and W. J. West member Andre Whipple sits down with two iconic casting directors and Teamster negotiating committee members, Allison Jones and Sherry Thomas to discuss some of the challenges they are up against. even when I was a little girl, people would say, well, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I would say, I'm going to be in Hollywood.
I didn't know what I wanted to be, but I just knew that it was, you know, well, I'm sure I knew what I thought I was going to be. But most people outside of Hollywood don't realize the incredible amount of work and jobs, the number of people that your favorite movies and TV shows are built on. Yeah. The, the thousands of people who are putting in the work to get that product made.
And once you get into, you know, once, once I found the path, which took a little bit of time, but it was within two years, I was interning in a, in a casting office, knowing nothing about the process of it or what sides were or what, you know, anything was, um, I realized over time that when I would. Play sick to stay home to watch nine to five on HBO because you could look up in the HBO guide and see how many times it would play. So I would watch it back to back.
I was like studying, you know, or when I would watch, um, reruns of Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley or any of those shows, I was studying and it was, um, magical for me. I just, I couldn't get enough of what they were doing. the joy that it brought to me. I would also say, that we're kept in the same lane. So many directors who I worked with in television would not call me for their big movies because God forbid TV do a movie because, you know, you just can't do it.
And casting executives would not approve you. Um, so what was your first big movie, a movie that you feel a movie called Deep Impact? And I cried when Leslie Feldman called and said, we're going to hire you for Deep Impact. I don't, she has any, I owe her everything. She has no, cause she also hired me for Freaks and Geeks. She has no idea how I hung up that phone and cried because all I wanted to do is a feature film. Wow. Um, so.
Being guilty of what studios were being guilty of putting feature films above TV and now TV are the new feature films But and I'd love to see that switch off I was asked to join, um, the steering committee, um, Two bargaining cycles ago. I want to say it was around 2014. Um, I had really small kids. They were toddlers. We were extremely busy and I just kept saying, I don't understand why you want me there. I don't understand why you want me there.
We curated the steering committee, and we really developed groups of different casting directors. Um, so each person has, not Allison, because she, I brought her in later, but each person has a group of about 10 to 12 casting directors of all varying levels. And we all wanted varying levels. We didn't want one, you know, and we We're, we're uniting, which is what a union is all about. And we're listening to what the issues at hand are.
Yes. It was a godsend to finally figure out that it was okay to talk about deal points on one particular streamer when I was like, wait a minute, they expect me to get paid less and I don't understand this. And Sherry and I exploded with expletives about how we get paid. Deals made now and it well, this is such a classic union story though.
No. Yeah, I had no idea That I would have been backed up at the time for years by other people that said you need to get this you have to get I had no idea what I even could get in deals right and then when it started being Wanting to go back down on my pay from a similar project at the same streamer. They wanted to pay me less So if Allison Jones is dealing with this, can you imagine what everybody else is dealing with?
And so that's where it became like, That you're literally having Somebody say, let me pay you. Let me pay you less. Uh, let me pay you less than your rate over and over again, just systematically cutting down, uh, what you've earned in your long career. And even worse in inflation adjusted dollars. For example, I have, I dug deep into my storage unit to get paycheck stubs and to get just to see how bad it was.
Yeah. put me into a deep depression because I says, Oh my God, look at this fresh prints of Bel Air check stub. I really did make less now on something I just finished then in 1989. I found the old typewritten contract. Yeah. And when I did the inflation, adjusted one page, the, um, uh, weekly amount, um, inflation adjusted was, less than what it is now. So that's a bummer. I was really bereft after that one.
Yeah. You've had so much more experience between, between when you did Fresh Prince and now. Yes. And you're telling me that you are making less now than you were that. Per week, yes. That's wild. when you think about the billions and billions of dollars that her work has made for these companies and to, and, and the thing about casting is we really love being there. We are not, um, I always say this, you know, to my agent when I'm, you know, I'm like, we're not being pigs.
We're literally asking for. a cost of living increase, basically, you know what I'm saying? We need to be treated fairly, you know, we are a part of it. Correct. Yes, using your painting, uh, metaphor, analogy, metaphor. Um, you have paint and you have a, and you have a, uh, canvas, but you need a painter with talent and our talent is the vision of bringing an actor in the room and knowing they can interpret your writing the way, the interesting, fascinating way it should be interpreted.
Honestly. A huge thrill to hang out with you guys. Um, Sherry and Alison, I'm just really, I'm really glad that we got to talk. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Good morning. Welcome to the Portland Firefighters Association pod, the PFFA pod. I'm your host, Kyle McLowry. I'm here this morning with Isaac McLennan, our president of PFFA Local 43. Good morning, everybody. And with Carl Koenig, who is our Oregon State Firefighters Council President. Did I get that right? You did. Nailed it.
Thank you and good morning. So we're here today to just do what we're calling a IAFF 57th convention wrap up. All right. So, let's jump into the resolutions. Uh, unless you wanted to say something about the vice presidential speeches, or just you were impressed that they were there.
Oh, I just, I think from a I'll just say as a citizen, yeah, I got to just, I mean, myself and the other, you know, I don't know, there was about 4, 000 attendees, 1, 800 delegates, another handful of alternates guests. Uh, the remaining, uh, delegates of the main positions were alternates and guests to be able to see back to back on Wednesday from, you know, Tim Walls. And on Thursday, uh, JD Vance, like that, just the, the. I mean, I don't think Americans are going to have that opportunity.
How many Americans are going to have that one, two opportunity? So I just feel as an American, pretty, pretty cool to see that in real time, right in front of me at a place where I'm already, you know, around my fellow firefighters from across the United States and Canada. So I just, you know, I, I don't want to get too much into the politics other than I, I really, the civics of having. us all in one room and they addressed us one way. I think that's really, really cool.
It speaks to the power of the IFF. Yeah. Without a doubt. Okay. Um, so clearly we're not, we're not going to hit all 65 resolutions. No, nor should we, but you can review them. Uh, next one is the Wildland WUI.
Now I don't think anybody here, uh, has any problems with, uh, or, or had wildfires affect them this summer, whether you were actually out sleeping on the ground in some unknown marked location doing structural protection, or you're back here working a call shift for someone who was out on a rig, uh, and, and days and days and days, 14, sometimes 21 days in a row, uh, are.
Our participation in the WUI wildland discussion, not only at the state, but in this case, the international, is very, very important. Uh, it's our members out there putting these fires, doing the structural protection, whether it's a preposition assignment. Whether it's actually a con flag, red lever, everybody come type of event. We had 19 of those this year, 19 best ever. Right.
If you're a wildland firefighter, this year was your year, uh, 2 million acres burned in the state, uh, but surprisingly less than 50 structures. Compare that to 2020 where we lost over 3, 000. We had an urban conflagration. We burned an entire town down. So what we're doing now is with pre positioning and pulling the red lever faster is we're able to go do the, uh, the, uh, setting up, if you will. Uh, and performing, uh, structural protection throughout the entire state of Oregon.
Here you are, you work at, you know, Station 10, Portland, Oregon, and all of a sudden you find yourself in, uh, the lower southeast corner of the state in Rome, protecting homes out in the middle of basically nowhere. We put 900 firefighters a day on duty throughout the entire state. And what we did was take those 900 and basically put them everywhere, but home, and then everybody else had to come back to work. Yeah. So pretty incredible. Uh, insanity.
We, you know, we, we are done having the ability to do more with less. And really that's what we're talking about here. And, uh, having those, that money go to where we really talks about that, And, uh, I want to thank you both for your continued excellence in providing information to our members. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a great day. All right. Thank you, Kyle. See ya. Hey, this is Simon Tapper from the Union Jews Podcast.
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There's one voice commenting on the news, so it's not much traction compared to other shows with multiple voices, guests, or frankly, hosts who don't have both a full time job and little ones at home. The stories keep coming if you know where to look, and that's a good thing, but I can't navigate all of it as I would like it to be done. The show is going dark as of Sunday night.
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Do I feel like I'm respected by Amazon? Absolutely not. Respected by Amazon? Nah. We're not really treated fair. These right here, we're fighting for our life. We're organizing a union to get our voices heard because we want to be able to provide for our families and we want to be able to be happy at work and not miserable. I'm tired of The disrespect, the unfair treatment. Yeah, I've been injured, but I really couldn't call out because they say if I call out, that's a write up.
Amazon is scared because they know that with the power of the union, they're going to have to dish out what they owe. That's better pay, safer working conditions. Cents are organized in last week. They're giving us hot dogs. They've given us chips and snacks. Is that respect or is that just trying to keep you quiet and make you feel like they're on your side? You're not on our side, buddy. Give us what we need. It feels like we're being stepped on, treated as less than, or dogs, and It hurts.
It truly hurts with the hours that I typically work at the pay rate of 3 an hour. I typically clock in about 300 a week for what I'm supposed to make. And then you see the deductions, you know, in a seven hour shift, about three hours, if not more, is spent doing non tipped work and we're not getting paid for that. So out of that 300. Waffle house gets more of it than I do. They'll end up with about 140 of my paycheck taxes takes around 40. I'm left with maybe a hundred dollars.
You know, there are many nights that I have to choose if I'm even going to be able to eat with my son, or, you know, if we're going to pay this bill or go and get groceries. You know, all any extras. We can't do that. Waffle House advertises that we are a family, but why are you not treating me like one? Your family doesn't have to wonder where their next meal is going to come from because their job took money out of their check for a meal. They didn't eat.
So take a cue from those Amazon drivers, and thousands more around the country in this time of renewed union approval. If you're not unionized, the time is now to talk to your coworkers. And really decide what's important to you. If you're the ones doing all the labor keeping that business running. I can't say it any more plainly. Union Yes is the only way through this capitalist hellhole in which the majority of us are spinning around and around, stop the wheel for a minute, and organize.
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