{"id":178,"date":"2019-12-02T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:37:06","slug":"33-19-union-democracy-diana-kilmury-and-the-teamsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"#33-19 Union Democracy &#8230; Diana Kilmury and the Teamsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labor unions are starting to gain more recognition internationally as a legitimate element of a functioning economy. To be effective for their members, they must also be democratic. In this interview from 1996, the year a movie on her life was released, Kilmury explains the internal struggle for democracy in the Teamsters, and what a union can negotiate for its members, including women, in a capitalist world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Host(s):<\/strong>&nbsp;Carol Stall<br><strong>Featured Speakers\/Guests:<\/strong>&nbsp;Diana Kilmury is famous for her work as International Vice President of the Teamsters Union and Co-Chair of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. She is from Vancouver BC. The film about her life, Mother Trucker, can be found on YouTube<br><br><strong>Credits:<\/strong>&nbsp;Interview by Carol Stall at Women&#8217;s Access to Electronic Resources. Update by Frieda Werden. Original version of this program was WINGS #03-96 Kilmury&#8217;s War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Comments:<\/strong>\u00a0An inspiring woman with good advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">X<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1inlXODvn0V3bViYc-ZTC0e3471qoV-6k\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1inlXODvn0V3bViYc-ZTC0e3471qoV-6k\/view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor unions are starting to gain more recognition internationally as a legitimate element of a functioning economy. To be effective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,46,51,36,42,60,66,54,64],"tags":[75,99,83,76,69,101,73,71],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-canada","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-regional","category-society-and-culture","category-television","category-united-states","category-women","tag-activism","tag-canada","tag-latin-america","tag-politics","tag-society-and-culture","tag-television","tag-united-states","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}