“It's not a time to take from your workers. It's a time to reward your workers for the work that they put in.”
Sep 14, 2022
49 min
Episode 132: Roundtable Conversation on How Trade Spend and Slotting Fees Shape The Grocery Industry
The Checkout presents this special conversation about the grocery industry, with a focus on how the money changes hands behind the scenes and how that shapes what you buy.
Sep 7, 2022
51 min
The Checkout speaks with food justice activist lauren Ornelas on the campaign to support workers at Amy’s Kitchen, a popular vegetarian food company based in California. lauren has been a longtime animal rights, plant-based foods and social justice activist and has a unique perspective on ethical food systems.
Jul 21, 2022
54 min
The Checkout speaks with Trader Joe's United, a group of retail clerks in Hadley, Massachusetts working to organize the first ever union at Trader Joes.
Jul 15, 2022
28 min
The Checkout gets the scoop on the labor movement from the AFL-CIO to the Labor Notes Conference from trade unionist and fellow Texan Tevita Uhatafe.
Jul 12, 2022
1 hr 11 min
The Checkout speaks with Tommy Carden Lead Organizer of Warehouse Workers for Justice, an Illinois based workers center organizing in the era of Amazon.
Jun 29, 2022
28 min
The Checkout speaks with humane farming advocate Andrew deCoriolis on ending factory farming and promoting a better food system.
Jun 21, 2022
40 min
The Checkout speaks with Kamal Bell of Sankofa Farms of North Carolina about Afrocentric food production, beekeeping and food justice.
Jun 16, 2022
20 min
The Checkout’s Errol Schweizer does a deep dive into the brazen corruption of the meat industry and how organizers want to rein it in and protect meat processing workers. Also… we keep talking about profit inflation, it’s bad bad bad. Prices on basic necessities are going up because big companies are raking in huge profits, by passing higher costs onto consumers than they received from suppliers. But there are solutions.
Jun 9, 2022
26 min
The Checkout does a deep data dive into the labor upsurge with Johnnie Kallas of Cornell’s School of Industrial Labor Relations.
Jun 7, 2022
34 min
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