Black Work Talk Podcast
1) Looking Forward and Back After a Historic Year of Labor Strikes and Wins, with Carlos Jimenez
Throughout this season of Black Work Talk, we've explored how black workers have shown up in many of the big labor wins that happened in 2023. This season finale brings the full picture into perspecti...Show More
2) Last Year's Unsung Labor Victories: Kaiser-Permanente Workers' 3-Day Strike
In this episode of Black Work Talk, hosts Bianca Cunningham and Jamilah Rogers are joined by SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West members, Rashad Pritchett and Teresa Miles. They delve into the challen...Show More
Last Year's Unsung Labor Victories: Kaiser-Permanente Workers' 3-Day Strike
1:07:15 | Jan 10th, 2024
3) Preparing for a General Strike, with Cecily Myart-Cruz
In this episode, United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz joins Bianca and Jamala to discuss the challenges she has faced as the first woman of color to head this po...Show More
4) Electoral Focus of the Working Class in 2024 and Beyond
Bianca and Jamala take time this episode to explore the many heavy challenges and crisis facing the world and the left in this moment. With the recent demand by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and a few...Show More
5) Solidarity in the South. Solidarity in Palestine. Solidarity Everywhere. With Shafeah M'Balia
Fifty-six percent of people in the US who self-identify as Black call the South home. Today's guest, Shafeah M'Balia, explains why and how we need to focus organizing strategies on Black workers ...Show More
6) Where the Writers Guild of America Goes Next to Support Marginalized Workers, with Angela Harvey and Tawal Panyacosit Jr.
After the second-longest strike in Hollywood history, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to ratify a new contract in October 2023. Their 146-day walkout brought wins on some of the mo...Show More
7) The Case for a Black Workers' Bill of Rights with Tanya Wallace Gobern
There is a lot of momentum in the organized labor movement right now and the National Black Worker Center is an organization which ensures black workers are strongly advocated for as we move...Show More
8) Teamsters' Hard Fight For a Fair UPS Contract, with Chris Williamson and Richard Hooker Jr.
Around 340,000 members of the Teamsters Union who work for UPS came within days of walking off the job in July 2023 in what would have been the one of the largest strikes in US history. In August, the...Show More
Teamsters' Hard Fight For a Fair UPS Contract, with Chris Williamson and Richard Hooker Jr.
1:29:48 | Nov 15th, 2023
9) Passing the Torch - Welcome to Season Three
Black Work Talk’s third season explores where the energy for this current wave of labor activism comes from, how it impacts Black workers, and a fresh vision for what’s next. Listeners will ...Show More
10) Episode 19: Bill Fletcher
In this episode of Black Work Talk, Steven Pitts speaks with Bill Fletcher, long-time racial justice and labor activist.This is the last episode of this iteration of Black Work Talk, and we discuss ma...Show More