Haymarket Originals: Heat the Ground Up

8. Blanco Joins A Fighting Union

Welcome to Heat the Ground Up, an oral history of Starbucks Workers United. In this episode, we’ll hear workers fight for material gains and develop a concrete understanding of how union organizing can counteract exploitation and change workers’ lives. Over the course of the series, we’ll follow one of the most important labor fights in a generation through the voices and perspectives of the workers who organized it from the ground up. This podcast is a Haymarket Originals production. Visit haymarketbooks.org [http://haymarketbooks.org] to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter by Beth Howard, which is 10% off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club]. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket, and help fund projects like this one. Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen [https://strike.kitchen/]. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure [https://www.chartsandleisure.com/].

7. Blanco Grows The Ground

Welcome to Heat the Ground Up, an oral history of Starbucks Workers United. In this episode, we get an inside look at how the baristas at Blanco, in San Antonio Texas, win a union with help from Starbucks Workers United. Over the course of the series, we’ll follow one of the most important labor fights in a generation through the voices and perspectives of the workers who organized it from the ground up. This podcast is a Haymarket Originals production. Visit haymarketbooks.org [http://haymarketbooks.org] to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club]. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket, and help fund projects like this one. Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen [https://strike.kitchen/]. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure [https://www.chartsandleisure.com/].

6. San Antonio Under Fire

Welcome to Heat the Ground Up, an oral history of Starbucks Workers United. In this episode, Starbucks management takes the anti-union campaign to a new level and, after a series of bad management decisions, workers in San Antonio are driven to unionize. Over the course of the series, we’ll follow one of the most important labor fights in a generation through the voices and perspectives of the workers who organized it from the ground up. This podcast is a Haymarket Originals production. Visit haymarketbooks.org [http://haymarketbooks.org] to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World by Daniel Gross, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club]. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket, and help fund projects like this one. Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen [https://strike.kitchen/]. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure [https://www.chartsandleisure.com/].

Breather

We'll be back soon with more episodes of Heat the Ground Up! Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen [https://strike.kitchen/]. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure [https://www.chartsandleisure.com/].

5. Buffalo Starts a Movement

Welcome to Heat the Ground Up, an oral history of Starbucks Workers United. In this episode, we get an inside look at the first Starbucks Workers United vote count and see the union take off across the country. Over the course of the series, we’ll follow one of the most important labor fights in a generation through the voices and perspectives of the workers who organized it from the ground up. This podcast is a Haymarket Originals production. Visit haymarketbooks.org [http://haymarketbooks.org] to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including Class War, USA, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club]. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket, and help fund projects like this one. Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen [https://strike.kitchen/]. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure [https://www.chartsandleisure.com/].