The Labor Notes Podcast

• Stewards’ Corner: Workplace Safety Is Not a Game

  Employer-run safety games are not merely instructional or even “fun.” They’re there to trivialize workplace hazards and to pass the buck onto individual workers for their own safety, instead of listening to workers about how to eliminate the dangers they encounter at work every day.  Labor Notes Organizer Kari Thompson joins pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann to talk about a Stewards’ Corner piece we ran on this topic, titled, “Workplace Safety is Not a Game.” This piece was adapted from the UE Steward, a project by the United Electrical Workers Education Department that publishes how-to articles. Browse them all at bit.ly/UESteward.

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• Wells Fargo Workers Push to Bring A Union to the Banking Industry

  Workers at Wells Fargo are organizing the first union at a major U.S. bank—in one of the least-organized industries in the country. Labor Notes Editor Dan DiMaggio, whose story on their organizing efforts is on the cover of our October issue, joins the pod. You can also read his piece,“Wells Fargo Workers Push to Bring A Union to the Banking Industry,” on our website. Subscribe to the Labor Notes magazine by Tuesday, October 14, to start receiving it from the November issue onwards: labornotes.org/subscribe

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• May 2028 Could Be the Push the Labor Movement Needs to Survive, Grow, and Build Power

  Announcing the New Labor Notes Resource: May2028.org Are you and your co-workers organizing against attacks on our democratic rights as workers? Are you, like an estimated 250,000 workers so far, committing to heed United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain’s call for a coordinated strike? Are you already planning other ways to be part of a nationwide show of power less than three years from now? Visit May2028.org for new Labor Notes guides on organizing with your fellow union members, co-workers, and members of your community. Labor Notes organizers Luis Feliz Leon and Keith Brower Brown join the pod. 

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• The Labor Notes Pod will be back next week on Friday, 10/3

  We're taking a break from the pod this week as our staff meets in person to make plans for the next six months of Labor Notes programming! We'll be back to our regular schedule next week with a new episode on Friday, 10/3. In the meantime, send us voice notes of your organizing questions to [email protected]! We can't wait to feature them on a future episode and answer your questions. See you back here next week!

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• How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

  Last month, workers at some of the Los Angeles and Santa Monica locations of Sugared + Bronzed, a salon chain offering spray tanning and sugaring hair removal services, voted to unionize with Communications Workers Local 9505. Workers say the job is an arduous balancing act of delivering a comfortable, safe experience providing intimate services to customers, while navigating a breakneck pace of appointments. Inside the fight to build a beauty salon chain union. 

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