On the Line
by On the Line
Episode 30: "The Strike is for Everyone": How San Francisco…
About this podcast
On the Line is a network of union members and leaders who cover, analyze, and draw lessons from the struggles of workers across the country to build a fighting labor movement. Although the vast majority of workers in the U.S. remain unorganized, union popularity is at its highest since 1965. One of the key drivers of this popularity is a groundswell of interest from a new generation of young workers who are looking to the labor movement as a vehicle to fight against an increasingly bleak future. A labor movement that is content with business as usual will not realize the opportunities of this moment. Instead, we need unions that articulate not only our demands for better pay and working conditions, but can advance our broader political aspirations as a working class. Building a movement that can advance the hopes and dreams of all workers won't be achieved by creating perfect structures and processes in unions that become more marginal with each passing year. It will only be achieved by organizing at a scale and fighting with an intensity that we have not seen in decades.
This is the kind of labor movement that we need.
Our future is on the line.
Episodes
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- Episode 30: "The Strike is for Everyone": How San Francisco Educators Built a Movement · 44 minOn the Line interviewed Nathalie Hrizi, VP of Substitutes of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) and a core leader of UESF's 4 day strike. We sat down with Nathalie at…
- Episode 29: Sara Nelson: Crisis and Opportunity Ahead · 1 h 2 minOn the Line interviewed Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Fight Attendants (AFA-CWA). As one of the leading progressive labor voices in the country, Sara has pushed…
- Episode 28: In the Belly of the Beast: How the Federal Unionists Network is Fighting DOGE and Project 2025 · 55 minOn the Line interviewed Chris Dols, Co-Executive Director of the Federal Unionists Network (FUN). As Trump pursues the billionaire agenda laid out in Project 2025 to dismantle…
- Episode 27: Fighting Monopoly Power: UFCW 3000’s battle against grocery giants · 58 minIn a time of growing monopoly power and inequality, UFCW Local 3000 has organized militant fights against the biggest corporate giants in grocery and healthcare. Faye Guenther…
- Episode 26: Reconstructing Chicago Public Schools: CTU’s Contract Victory as a Blueprint for Resistance · 24 minThe Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has recently ratified a powerful contract with the aim of lifting up students. They have built a force field to stop the attacks from the federal…
- Episode 25: Jimmy Williams Jr: Labor's Fork in the Road · 49 minOn the Line interviewed Jimmy Williams Jr, the General President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT). In this moment of political upheaval and…
- Episode 24: We Can't Wait: Inside the CA Statewide Educators Campaign · 1 h 24 minCalifornia educators have recently launched the We Can't Wait campaign, a statewide coordinated effort by educator unions covering nearly 80k educators and over one million…
- Episode 23: Gene Bruskin Part 2: Building the Anti-war Movement in U.S. Labor · 1 h 3 minGene Bruskin, a long-time union organizer and anti-war activist joins our producer Jeff Rosenberg for part 2 of our interview, to share power stories of his experience building…
- Episode 22: Gene Bruskin Part 1: Immigrant Workers Fight and Win · 1 h 34 minGene Bruskin, a long-time union organizer and anti-war activist sits down with our producer Jeff Rosenberg to share the powerful stories of immigrant workers organizing for…
- Episode 21: August in Review · 26 minFrom exorbitant CEO pay to three different strikes — UNITE HERE hotel workers, SAG-AFTRA video game workers, and CWA AT&T workers — in this episode of On the Line, we got…
- Episode 20: July in Review · 32 minIn this episode of On the Line we discuss pro-corporate courts rolling back our labor rights, the trumped up investigation into the UAW by their federal monitor, the new…
- Episode 19: Project 2025 and the Labor Movement Beyond November · 32 minIn this episode of On the Line we break down Project 2025 and what its impact could mean for the labor movement beyond November.
- Episode 18: Lessons from Smithfield: How workers unionized the largest hog processing plant in the world 20 years ago · 38 min20 years ago, over 5,000 Smithfield Foods workers in Tar Heel, NC who work at the largest hog processing plant in the world won their union. At the time, it was the most…
- Episode 17: June in Review · 32 minUnions are winning at a higher rate than they have in 15 years. In June, we saw the largest public sector union victory in 25 years and Waffle House workers won a $3/hour raise…
- Episode 16: How Union Workers are Taking a Stand for Palestine · 43 minIn this episode, we're On the Line with Taher Dahleh, member of CWA local 1109 and organizer with PYM, and Yajaira Cuapio, School Social Worker in SFUSD and Executive Board Rep…
- Episode 15: May in Review · 29 minIn this episode of On the Line, we go through a quick review of labor struggles in May, featuring updates on the historic academic strike of UAW 4811 workers, a bargaining…
- Episode 14: From Service to the Auto Industry: Southern Workers Unite and Fight · 25 minIn this episode, we're On the Line with Naomi Harris, Waffle House worker and founding member of USSW, and Quichelle Liggins, 13 year Hyundai worker in Alabama. We had the…
- Episode 12: Inside the First Authorized Pro-Palestine Strike · 29 minIn this episode we're On the Line with UAW 4811 members and leaders in the UC system to discuss the first authorized pro-Palestine strike. We're joined by Rafa Jaime, President…
- Episode 11: Southern Waffle House Workers Go On Strike! · 23 minIn this episode we're On the Line with Katie Giede, a 10 year Waffle House worker with USSW in Atlanta to discuss the recent Waffle House strike and why she walked off the job…
- Episode 10: LA Hotel Workers Striking and Winning · 37 minIn this episode, we're On the Line with Kurt Petersen, Co-President of UNITE HERE Local 11 to discuss the innovative strike tactics of thousands of LA hotel workers and the…







