Live Show: Organizing on a Mass Scale (w/ Josh Thole & Sarah Beth Ryther)

We hosted another Working People live show, in collaboration with the Action Builder / Action Network team, on May 8 at the 30th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress in Montréal. In this panel discussion, Max speaks with Sarah Beth Ryther, employee-organizer with Trader Joe's United in Minneapolis, and Josh Thole, former Major League Baseball player and current Minor League Special Assistant for the MLB Players Association, about what union organizing from the ground up looks like, and about how we can scale up our local organizing efforts and build the infrastructure to sustain nationwide campaigns. 

Additional links/info below...

• Major League Baseball Players Association website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• Trader Joe's United website, Twitter page, and Instagram
• Trader Joe's United Solidarity Fund
• Action Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• Action Builder website
• Jeff Schuhrke & Sarah Beth Ryther, Jacobin, "Trader Joe's Workers Have Won Their First Unions in America"
• Working People, "Alex P."
• Evan Drellich, The Athletic, "'Hit the Go Button': The Six Years that Made Baseball's Minor League Union"
• Tipping Pitches, "The Gang Forms a Union (feat. Trevor Hildenberger)"
• Working People, "2023 Canadian Labour Congress, Part 1 (w/ Emily Leedham, Guy Smith, Mary Newman, James Russwurm, & Liz Ha)"
• Working People, "2023 Canadian Labour Congress, Part 2 (w/ Nora Loreto, Meg Davis, Larry Rousseau, & Nicholas Marcus Thompson)"

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