Labor relations

But that's a story for another podcast.

That's a story for our Labor Relations podcast way down the line.

John, thank you so much for joining Section 415, and look forward to having you on as we debate and dissect this 40-man roster crunch coming for the Giants before December 1st.

Absolutely.

I'm Sarah McNamara, as I said earlier.

I'm the president of Southern Labor Studies Association.

To answer this question, I think it's important that we give credit where it's due.

Working History, the podcast, it was your brainchild, Beth.

And I think that I have said this over and over to people.

And so I hope that in the weeks between episodes that are forthcoming to our new audiences, that folks take a minute and listen to some of your old recordings.

Beth's work, she sounds like she is Terry Gross of Southern Labor Studies.

She dives in with a very particular voice.

But as she said, there is a charter right in this country to strike.

So how can you do both those things at the same time? Adam King is an assistant professor in the Labor Studies program at the University of Manitoba.

We've talked about this issue many times.

Adam, thank you for joining us.

You bet.

Have a great day.

Adam King, he is an assistant professor in labor studies program at University of Manitoba, someone we've talked to about this very issue a great many times.

You know how I feel, and I think I know how you feel.

I could go into depth about how bad Hearst is, but essentially like Hearst is extremely anti-union.

As an example, when our folks in Hearst, Connecticut first announced their organizing campaign about a year and a half, a little over a year and a half ago, the company fought them, resisted, pushed them to a hearing into the National Labor Relations Board.

And then Actually, the company missed their deadline to even submit their side of the dispute over who's actually going to be in this union or get to vote for this union.

And we still, Maria, had to wait eight months for the NLRB to give us a decision after we were the only side that had gotten our information in in time.

We're joining the news guild.

And then the boss fired one of their colleagues and that day they went on strike.

They went on strike before they had been certified by the National Labor Relations Board through an election or received voluntary recognition by the employer.

And they were just acting, like they were just acting as a group, you know? And so like in my head, like, you're at a union, like, you know, from a comm standpoint too, Maria, I don't like you, but I'm constantly just like,

Yep.

Um, and then I know, like, an- another aspect is, you know, the towns turn to you for information and analysis on labor relations.

Yes.

Uh, that's primarily-

So a good amount of our, our research requests are related to compensation and other issues around employment.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I compile every month a monthly labor relations data reporter that has-

Okay