Live Show: We Need You—Yes, You—to Join the Labor Movement (w/ Chris Smalls, Vince Quiles, Sarah Beth Ryther, Tafadar Sourov, & Riley Fell)

We hosted another Working People live show on Feb. 22 in New York City, in collaboration with the Action Builder / Action Network team and The People's Forum. In this panel discussion, introduced by Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Max speaks with worker-organizers from around the country about why they and their coworkers decided not to quit their jobs but to commit to improving their workplaces, what the day-to-day work of organizing looks like, and how you—yes, you—can get involved and help grow the labor movement. Panelists include: Vince Quiles of Home Depot Workers United in Philadelphia; Tafadar Sourov of Laborers Local 79 in NYC; Sarah Beth Ryther of Trader Joe's United in Minneapolis; and Riley Fell of Starbucks Workers United in Baltimore. 

Additional links/info below...

• Vince's Twitter page and TikTok 
• Home Depot Workers United Twitter page
• Laborers Local 79 website, Twitter page, and Facebook page
• Trader Joe's United website, Twitter page, and Instagram 
• Trader Joe's United Solidarity Fund 
• Riley's Instagram 
• Starbucks Workers United website, Twitter page, and Instagram
• Action Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• Action Builder website
• The People's Forum website, Twitter page, and Facebook page
• Amazon Labor Union website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram
• Working People, "Vince Quiles"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "He Tried to Organize Home Depot's First Union. Now He's Unemployed"
• Jeff Schuhrke & Sarah Beth Ryther, Jacobin, "Trader Joe's Workers Have Won Their First Unions in America"
• Working People, "Alex P."
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "This NYC Construction Union Is Reaching Out to Undocumented and Non-Union Workers. The Bosses Don't Like It"
• Working People, "New York Is a Union Town (w/ Chaz Rynkiewicz)"
• Ashley Bishop, The Nation, "Immigrant Construction Workers Fight Back Against Exploitation"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "The Historic, Youthful, Rank-and-File Movement to Unionize Starbucks"
• Maximillian Alvarez, Breaking Points, "Starbucks Leads Corporate CRIME WAVE To Crush Union Workers"

Permanent links below...

• Working People Patreon page
• Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!
• Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song