Nato Green

I listened to the episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @chactivist.bsky.social about the crisis of organized labor. I have never before heard a podcast where I vehemently agreed with some parts and vehemently disagreed with other parts.

Brooks seemed to want to make the argument that labor needs to take more swing and organize more and also that we should drop everything and go all in on Amazon. I'm open to that, but it would require the rest of labor rallying around the Teamsters and UFCW to do that.

I listened to the episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @chactivist.bsky.social about the crisis of organized labor. I have never before heard a podcast where I vehemently agreed with some parts and vehemently disagreed with other parts.

What I vehemently disagreed with Brooks about was the business at the beginning about the crisis of organized labor. Yes sure labor is institutionally risk-averse and should be bold, but I CAN NOT STAND discussions of "what labor should do" that are not sectorally and geographically specific.

I listened to the episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @chactivist.bsky.social about the crisis of organized labor. I have never before heard a podcast where I vehemently agreed with some parts and vehemently disagreed with other parts.

A friendly amendment to what Brooks said is that one of the questions the shape the method is what the boss's weaknesses are. There are some employers who are very vulnerable to strikes but don't care about press and others that are very vulnerable to bad press and don't care about strikes.

I listened to the episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @chactivist.bsky.social about the crisis of organized labor. I have never before heard a podcast where I vehemently agreed with some parts and vehemently disagreed with other parts.

Brooks is completely right that the structure-based methods she taught and wrote about are designed for the most hostile terrain possible--when there's a hard boss fight and the workers are not in motion. When the terrain is more favorable, the methods can and should change.

I listened to the episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @chactivist.bsky.social about the crisis of organized labor. I have never before heard a podcast where I vehemently agreed with some parts and vehemently disagreed with other parts.

The part I agreed with was the discussion of (my late friend) Jane McAlevey's organizing methods and momentum organizing. I encourage staff at my union to read Jane's book "No Shortcuts" alongside the key momentum book, "This is an Uprising," by @markengler.bsky.social and Paul Engler.

Mayor Lurie says he wants to make it harder to put propositions on the ballot to stop insiders. Which insiders? What ballot measures specifically does he think were done by insiders at the expense of voters?

The moment when Nat of Bay Area Discovery Museum @seiu1021.bsky.social bargaining team got on the radio to announce to that they just got a Tentative Agreement on a 1st union contract after 31 bargaining sessions and are calling off the strike scheduled to start tomorrow morning.

San Francisco voters get the chance to pass Prop I this election, which will dedicate $ to social housing. Of course, our Boy King Mayor doesn’t like it because it upsets developers. The sf building trades unio s put out a mailer with some gross arguments, carrying water for the Mayor. #YesonI

"Neverending flow of money with no accountability..." as opposed to the famously accountable market rate developers? How much accountability is there for how the City spends money on police? What are we even talking about?

San Francisco voters get the chance to pass Prop I this election, which will dedicate $ to social housing. Of course, our Boy King Mayor doesn’t like it because it upsets developers. The sf building trades unio s put out a mailer with some gross arguments, carrying water for the Mayor. #YesonI

Drawing the distinction between "nonprofit clients" and "everyday San Franciscans" is a racist dog whistle. It implies that poor people are not ALSO San Franciscans. I guess the Building Trades think the only legitimate housing is by capitalists for capitalists.

A lot of these shows were good but fell off. Battlestar Gallactica, Homeland, Ozark, dragged on longer than they had story to tell IMO. Also, no Killing Eve?