Episode 50: Jon Allen Foster and Tristan Bock-Hughes of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
05/07/21 • 105 min
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Episode #50 Notes
1:00 - On food sector labor organizing.
5:15 - On fast food management.
7:00 - What instigated the formation of EWOC?
13:30 - What’s the day-to-day during COVID?
17:00 - On COVID’s effect on the lives of fast food workers.
19:00 - On food service low-rates of unionization.
31:00 - What’s the next 6 months looks like for the union and organizing at Taco Bell?
35:00 - Are Taco Bell employees communicating about organizing at other locations?
45:00 - On fast food as skilled vs. unskilled labor.
51:00 - If you were running the restaurant, how would you run it?
58:20 - From expendable to dignified.
1:30:00 - Book Recommendations!
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
There Is Power In A Union, Phillip Dray
Iron Council, China Mieville
Episode #50 Notes
1:00 - On food sector labor organizing.
5:15 - On fast food management.
7:00 - What instigated the formation of EWOC?
13:30 - What’s the day-to-day during COVID?
17:00 - On COVID’s effect on the lives of fast food workers.
19:00 - On food service low-rates of unionization.
31:00 - What’s the next 6 months looks like for the union and organizing at Taco Bell?
35:00 - Are Taco Bell employees communicating about organizing at other locations?
45:00 - On fast food as skilled vs. unskilled labor.
51:00 - If you were running the restaurant, how would you run it?
58:20 - From expendable to dignified.
1:30:00 - Book Recommendations!
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
There Is Power In A Union, Phillip Dray
Iron Council, China Mieville
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Episode 51: Sylvia Mallari of People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
Episode #51 Notes
1:00 - What does food sovereignty mean?
1:30 - What are the goals and vision for the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty?
3:20 - How are decisions made in the coalition?
4:25 - What inspired the formation of the coalition?
5:30 - What have farmers in countries like India, Philippines, Cambodia been experiencing recently?
9:00 - What role do large institutional, international relief organizations play in supporting the global south?
10:45 - On international and philanthropic relief organizations and unintended impacts in the southern hemisphere.
16:00 - What is the UN Food Systems Summit, and why is it being boycotted by some organizations?
27:00 - What is your coalitions alternative to our current food system trajectory?
31:00 - Closing thoughts.
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