About this episode

The episode discusses various labor issues including union busting in the punk music industry and recent corporate attempts to weaken worker protections.

AI Boss Psychosis: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai Happy Maru's Birthday to all! We start this week with headlines from Swedish Medical Center, Ascend Cannabis, PECO, Ubisoft, the University of Tennessee, GEO Group, ASML, and Ford. The New Republic reports this week on attempts by the NLRB to weaken the regulations on franchises even further to protect big corporations. Workers for punk music merch supplier Kings Road Merch unionized, now Sony is trying to shut them down. Finally, the war on workers has reached a new stage with lawfare in Minneapolis, as the labor movement rallies behind the Minnesota 15. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Lina

Topics covered

• union busting
• labor movement
• corporate regulations
• worker rights
• punk music
• lawfare

Keywords

• union busting
• labor movement
• worker rights
• punk music
• NLRB
• lawfare
• corporate regulations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Swedish Medical Center, Ascend Cannabis, PECO, Ubisoft, University of Tennessee, GEO Group, ASML, Ford, New Republic, Kings Road Merch

Places: Minneapolis

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