Workers' Inquiry is a podcast about work, struggle and revolution by Notes from Below. Each episode interviews a different worker to understand their experiences of work and the lessons they've learned for building a militant rank-and-file labour movement.
In this episode we speak to Keiran Knutson, call center worker and president of Communications Workers of America Local 7250 in Minneapolis about the Minneapolis general strike against ICE and the organising that made it possible.
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2 Aug 2026
Defeating Operation Metro Surge
This episode is a mash up of different recordings and interviews done at the rank-and-file conference, Labor Notes, earlier this summer. The central interview is a half hour discussion with Issac Nelson, a teaching assistant from Minnesota, about the resistance to Operation Metro Surge.
Also featuring:
Ellen David Freedman, author of Keep Going: A guide to organising when it's hard (https://labornotes.org/store/keepgoing)
Josh McPhee, coauthor of Strike While The Needle is Hot: A discography of workers' revolt (https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/strike-while-the-needle-is-hot?srsltid=AfmBOopqXqa6iKj6XSP9WGW-W4GDlHh_OVzmzYwDrlNy77b_TbAeYIh3)
For more about Labor Notes, check out their website: https://labornotes.org/ (https://labornotes.org/)
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23 Jun 2026
Classroom Struggle: Working in a South London School
Direct action gets the goods. In this episode we discuss Matthew's experience of working and organising as a teaching assistant, including how they waged a campaign of on-the-job action to resist work intensification and management surveillance.
This episode was recorded on the fly, so please enjoy the background ambience of a pub garden in South London. We'll be back to the usual studio setup soon.
Read Matthew's article, A Lesson in Class Struggle: Working in a South London School (https://notesfrombelow.org/article/a-lesson-in-class-struggle-working-in-a-south-lond)
The Whitehall Worker (https://notesfrombelow.org/article/the-whitehall-worker-issue-1) (civil service bulletin)
The Handover (https://notesfrombelow.org/article/the-handover-issue-1) (St George's Hospital bulletin)
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