Tribunus Plebis Podcast

2023 was a banner year for organized labor - Teamsters got a record contract at UPS, the United Auto Workers got record breaking contracts at the Big 3. Starbucks has been organizing across the nation, SAG-AFTRA/WGA had victories. Vegas Hotel workers and healthcare workers across the country succeeded as well.

But what may this mean as we look forward into 2024 and beyond? Join us for a discussion!

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Police unions should not exist. Not only do they protect corrupt, violent, even murderous cops, but they are also staunch defenders of the status quo.

They use their power to grow in both size and power and to use their strength against the working class and poor.

They are the ultra-violent arm of the state which is dead set against the organizing of the proletariat.

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The National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, has ruled on the Cemex case, issued their "Final Rule", and Biden altered the calculation for prevailing wage on federal projects - All great wins for labor and the working class.

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The United Auto Workers have begun a strike action against Detroit's Big 3 automakers as the corporations refuse to bargain in good faith, give back the concessions they tore from the union during the recession, and balk at raises that these workers not only are deamnding but DESERVE. Join us as we discuss! -------------------------- This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce!  Please help us keep it go...

The United Auto Workers look likely to strike in what would be one of the largest strikes ver in this country.

They are fighting for wages and benefits, yes, but also for basic humanity and dignity.

Join us as we dive into what got us here, why, and how it might be resolved!

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Yellow Freight, the 3rd largest LTL freight company in the country has closed its door and is ready to declare bankruptcy.

How did this once venerable, near 100 year old company, get to this point? Who is truly to blame for this turn of events?

It's certainly not the Teamsters.

Join us as we dig through some history, find the villain(s), and set the record straight.

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UPS has bargained in bad faith with their unionized Teamster workforce, left part-timers behind to struggle in "part time poverty", and are now walking away from the table on the brink of a deal. UPS wants to continue harming it's part-time warehouse help while the Teamsters have doubled down on uplifting everybody under their contract. Join us for a discussion. ----------------------------------- This podcast and related works tak...

The US Supreme Court screw over organized labor with their terrible ruling in the Glacier v Teamsters case.

Glacier is just the tip of the iceberg in the attack on unions and collective worker actions.

Join Tribunus Plebis Media as we break this down.

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Most workers in the United States and Canada are barely aware of the holiday known as May Day or International Workers Day.

Please stop by for a moderate length, yet still incomplete origin story and learn where it came from, what it means, and why we don;t celebrate it in the US and Canada!

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Bob Lee, tech tycoon, was stabbed to death in San Francisco and the power elite turned all of their ire on the unhoused. The murderer was actually another tech tycoon. Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis, two cheerleaders, and a 6 year old child were amongst the victims of four separate, terrifying, unjustifiable shootings and murders across the country. Join us as we discuss how our culture here in the United States created, feeds, and supp...

Trump is indicted, arrested, and arraigned... and it changes nothing at all.

Brandon Johnson is elected Mayor of Chicago and Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court... and these two have the potential to actually change things in those cities and states.

Let's discuss bottom up power, what hope means in the political sense, and how we can win.

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We go over the lies and propaganda that lead to the illegal war crime that we call the Iraq War and watch and comment on the video Iraq 20 Years Later

• Link to Original Video: https://youtu.be/RIWfH3iEgXU

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The Warrior Met corporation and the state worked together to snuff out a righteous workers strike in Alabama and the media failed the workers just as badly, myself included.

Join me as we discuss why and how this happened.

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Let's talk about the rhetoric surrounding how we dehumanize and other the unhoused of this country and turn them from neighbors into existential enemies with our words.

"You cannot  truly help those that you do not Respect.

Pity is not respect, victimization is not respect. Criminalizing mere existence and co-existence is not even close to respect.

And without respect we cannot move forward.

And if we continue to do nothing th...

Not only does capital have control of the government and media, it also has control of the cultural zeitgeist and it has a hold so powerful that most of us hear a so called journalist ask a locomotive repairman making 80 grand a year or something whether fighting for the ability to not work while they are uncontrollably defecating water and physically decimated and not get fired for it is worth destroying the economy and we sit th...

We need to organize, unionize, work together, and undertake ventures which by their mere existence helps us all see that there are goals out there worth achieving and that the best way to do so is to make cause of common interests no matter our race or creed or culture and, even more importantly, no matter the race, creed, or culture of the worker standing with us on the picket lines as we fight for better wages, better lives, and ...

(Ep. 61) [Book Talk] ECONOMISM - Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, by James Kwak

In “Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality”, James Kwak makes a compelling case that an overly simplistic understanding of economics (‘Econ 101’) is exacerbating the economic, social, and political problems of both the United States and the world at large.

It’s extremely important to understand that these simple ideas are being use...

Today I want to talk about class, solidarity, and the labor struggle.

I’m going to argue that the way we use class in the united states is purposefully misleading, intentionally vague and, ultimately, destructive.

Class, when defined properly, is an incredibly important concept. But, as we will see, the way we talk about class in the united states borders on gibberish. Terms like the middle class and upper middle class are absolute...

Let’s talk about William “Big Bill” Dudley Haywood!

Standing at 6 feet tall and weighing well over 200 pounds, Big Bill was truly larger than life as he battled mining trusts, corporations, private armies, and government forces alike. He fought them with his agile mind, his calloused knuckles, and probably most importantly he damaged them with his words.

He, along with Mother Jones and Eugene Debs, dominated the labor movement of t...