Original air date: May 2, 2016
Host Taylor Weech interviews Luis Brennan, Burgerville worker and IWW member about the recently public Burgerville Workers Union in the greater Portland, OR area.
Show also includes information about the $15 Now campaign for a higher minimum wage across the country and the connections and disconnections between the radical history of labor organizing and the current state of worker’s rights.
For more information about Burgerville Workers Union, visit www.burgervilleworkersunion.org.
Other resources and information from today’s show:
www.portlandiww.org
http://15now.org/2016/03/onto-the-ballot-into-the-streets-california-workers-win-a-15-minimum-wage/
http://15now.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Binder1.pdf
http://flag.blackened.net/lpp/iww/speech_to_iww.html
Outro: “Union Maid”, Old Crow Medicine Show