Black Work Talk

A podcast by Convergence Magazine

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50 Episodes

  1. Looking Forward and Back After a Historic Year of Labor Strikes and Wins, with Carlos Jimenez

    Published: 1/17/2024
  2. Kaiser Workers' Unsung Win, with Rashad Pritchett and Theresa Myles

    Published: 1/10/2024
  3. Preparing for a General Strike, with Cecily Myart-Cruz

    Published: 12/20/2023
  4. Electoral Focus of the Working Class in 2024 and Beyond

    Published: 12/13/2023
  5. Solidarity in the South. Solidarity in Palestine. Solidarity Everywhere. With Shafeah M'Balia

    Published: 12/6/2023
  6. Where the Writers Guild of America Goes Next to Support Marginalized Workers, with Angela Harvey and Tawal Panyacosit Jr.

    Published: 12/1/2023
  7. The Case for a Black Workers' Bill of Rights with Tanya Wallace Gobern

    Published: 11/22/2023
  8. Teamsters' Hard Fight For a Fair UPS Contract, with Chris Williamson and Richard Hooker Jr.

    Published: 11/15/2023
  9. Passing the Torch - Welcome to Season Three

    Published: 11/8/2023
  10. Episode 19: Bill Fletcher

    Published: 1/25/2023
  11. Episode 18: Carroll Fife

    Published: 12/14/2022
  12. Episode 17: PowerSwitch Action

    Published: 10/12/2022
  13. Episode 16: Linda Burnham

    Published: 9/22/2022
  14. Episode 15: Stacy Davis Gates

    Published: 9/7/2022
  15. Episode 14: Labor Notes Conference Panel Part 2

    Published: 8/3/2022
  16. Episode 13: Labor Notes Conference Panel Part 1

    Published: 7/20/2022
  17. Episode 12: Erica Iheme

    Published: 7/7/2022
  18. Episode 11: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham

    Published: 5/18/2022
  19. Episode 10: Beverly Guy-Sheftall

    Published: 4/21/2022
  20. Episode 9: Mariame Kaba

    Published: 4/7/2022

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Black Work Talk is a show that elevates the voices of Black labor, workers, leaders, activists, and intellectuals in discussions on the connections between race, labor, capitalism and culture in the struggle for progressive governing power. On season three of Black Work Talk, new hosts Bianca Cunningham and Jamala Rogers explore the impact of 2023’s strike wave in conversations with rank and file workers from unions that have fought or are still fighting for better, more equitable contracts in 2023; including the UAW, Teamsters, Writers Guild of America and more. Where did the energy for this wave of labor movements come from, what does it mean for black workers, and where does it go from here? They also open the conversation by calling in the 90% of American workers who have yet to organize in their workplace with an ongoing accessible and educational series on the process of organizing and filing to start a union from scratch.