Rik's Mind Podcast Ep. 60- Dr. Andrea Haverkamp: labor organizer shares workering class struggles

Today we are joined by Dr. Andrea Haverkamp. Dr. Haverkamp (she/her) recently completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a doctoral minor in Queer Studies at Oregon State University. Her research explores the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming students in engineering and computer science, such as their sources of community support and collective resiliency in the face of adversity.
Dr. Haverkamp serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, an open-source scholarly publication exploring the intersections of engineering and inequity across the globe. She also has involvement in American Society for Engineering Education and Society of Women Engineers. Before her Ph.D., Dr. Haverkamp has worked as an engineer in the Federal government and served as a science education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Liberia.
She is currently a labor organizer supporting healthcare and hospital workers in Seattle with United Food & Commercial Workers Local 21, and previously served as President of Coalition of Graduate Employees, American Federation of Teachers Local 6069 at Oregon State University. She is a dual-card International Workers of the World union member and also a member of Socialist Alternative.

You can find more about Dr. Haverkamp:
Twitter https://twitter.com/whorganizing
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/solidarityradish/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaeh/
Dr. Haverkamp's blog https://sjengineers.blog

Show Notes:
Hoyte, Kansas | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt,_Kansas
Battle of Blair Mountain | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
The Great Battle of Blair Mountain | Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEWndZlAe4
Sacco and Vanzetti | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti
2021 Union Members Summary | United State Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
Starbucks Union Vote Sets Up a Watershed Moment for U.S. Labor | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-07/starbucks-union-vote-sets-up-a-watershed-moment-for-u-s-labor
David Graeber | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber | Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs
The Labor Day Graph That Says It All | Jacobin Magazine https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/09/labor-day-chart-union-membership-share-top-10-percent-income-inequality
John Deere tried replacing union workers with scabs — and immediately had tractor crash in their plant: report | RawStory https://www.rawstory.com/john-deere-strike/
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays | University of California at Berkeley https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/pdfs/EmmaGoldman_ANARCHISM_WHATITREALLYSTANDSFOR.pdf
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19: 12 policies that would boost worker rights, safety, and wages | Economic Policy Institute https://www.epi.org/publication/why-unions-are-good-for-workers-especially-in-a-crisis-like-covid-19-12-policies-that-would-boost-worker-rights-safety-and-wages/
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement by Stanley Aronowitz | Verso Books https://www.versobooks.com/books/1983-the-death-and-life-of-american-labo
Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-first Century by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber | The Anarchist Library https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrej-grubacic-david-graeber-anarchism-or-the-revolutionary-movement-of-the-twenty-first-centu
What is the future of capitalism? by Conrad Cartmell, Josh Decker, Andrea Haverkamp, and Doug Lain | The Platypus Affiliated Society https://platypus1917.org/2021/02/01/what-is-the-future-of-capitalism/
Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland | Laborwave Radio Podcast https://www.laborwaveradio.com/post/amazonians

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