# Toni Gilpin

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Attacks on Labor and How Unions Fight Back with Carl Rosen

Carl Rosen, General President of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), breaks down the ways capitalism attacks the working class, how unions can fight back through Them and Us Unionism, and the importance of solidarity and community in the labor movement. Find out more abou…

The Long Deep Grudge w/ Toni Gilpin

Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge, which chronicles the epic battles of the Farm Equipment Workers Union (FE) against corporate giant International Harvester. From the book description, "International Harvester – and the McCormick family that largely controlled i…

Toni Gilpin on The Long Deep Grudge

A night with Toni Gilpin, sharing about The Long Deep Grudge, ending with questions and encouraging words for labor organizers.

10-3-23 Full Episode ~ J.T. Allen, Toni Gilpin & Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani

Full show: The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 3 Oct. ‘23 First segment: Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screen writer’ strike after 148 days. The contract agreement was unanimously approved b…

Labor historian Tony Gilpin Puts the Historic UAW Auto Workers' Strike in Context

We speak with labor historian Toni Gilpin about the historic autoworkers strike now in its third week with workers out on strike in more than 20 states. Gilpin comes from a proud UAW family and is the author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the Americ…

Hot Labor Fall: Auto Workers Out on Strike, Writers Guild Victorious

Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screenwriters’ strike after 148 days. We hear from J.T. Allen, who was a WGA strike captain at the Warner Bros. picket line near Los Angeles. Then we spend most of the …

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 3 Oct. ‘23

First segment: Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screen writers’ strike after 148 days. We hear from J.T. Allen, who was a WGA strike captain at the Warner Bros. picket line near Los Angeles. Then we spea…

September 17 - The Southern Differential

On this day in labor history, the year was 1947.  That was the day workers at the International Harvester plant in Louisville, Kentucky had had enough.  They had just rejected a pay scale lower than that of Harvester workers elsewhere.   In her recent article for Leo Weekly, historian Toni Gilpi…

"The Long Deep Grudge " with guest Toni Gilpin

Greg and Pat welcome Dr. Toni Gilpin, author of "The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland." Dr. Gilpin is a labor historian, writer, and activist who holds a Ph.D in American History from Yale University.  Her writing has been published in…

20. Merger

Episode 20 of Fragile Juggernaut takes us from 1950 to 1955—the end of the line for the CIO. At the beginning of the story, the expulsion of the left-led unions was a recent wound, and the Cold War liberalism of figures like Walter Reuther seemed like a viable and vital project for the CIO’s future…