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Labor, Logistics, and Losing Our Minds

Labor, Logistics, and Losing Our Minds

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 Um, Sir… why is everything terrible, radioactive, and somehow still about bathrooms?Emily and Samie are joined by Ryan Johnson, a veteran truck driver and Teamster, to unpack how trucking, labor rights, and basic human dignity collide. Ryan breaks down how trucking is structured to reward long hours, unpaid waiting time, and “pay by the mile” systems that leave workers absorbing all the risk — including the fight to secure something as basic as bathroom access.The conversation escalates (quickly) into fracking, radioactive wastewater, and how hazardous materials are moved and dumped with little enforcement, putting workers and communities at risk. It’s bleak, sharp, and painfully funny — a reminder that everything is connected, and none of it works without labor.CHECK OUTSnohomish Podcast NetworkInternational Brotherhood of TeamstersGeneral Teamsters Local Union No. 38HB 1706, Concerning truck drivers ability to access restroom facilities (2022) WA State LegislatureTrucker Resource, Port of EverettLISTENFrom Pitch To Puget Sound - upcoming new show!Good Time Girls in Bellingham - Bellingham HistoryWATCHIce Road Truckers, The History ChannelPoisoned Waters (full documentary), PBS FrontlineGeochemistry of produced waters sourced from the Marcellus Shale, Justin Makey, PhD, YouTubeREADAmerica’s Radioactive Secret, By Justin Nobel (2020), Rolling StoneI’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End, By Ryan Johnson, MediumI Am A Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid, By Ryan Johnson, MediumRadioactive Shadow Workers: The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret, By Justin Nobel, Sierra Club MagazineTruckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste, By Dustin Renaud, Earth JusticeOrphan Well Explosion in Wayne National Forest Injures 6, Including 5 Critically, The IntelligencerSUPPORTWorker-led labor organizations and strike funds supporting drivers, warehouse workers, and port labor.Environmental justice groups fighting toxic dumping and injection wells, especially in Appalachia.Local and national efforts pushing for enforcement of existing hazmat and labor laws (not just new bills).BUY. IF YOU MUSTUnion-made goodsWaste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers (2020)Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster by Abrahm Lustgarten (2012)Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper and Marcina Wheeler (2020)Not radioactive road salt. Ever. Just… don’t.LEARN MOREFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Basics of hazardous materials law, bills of lading, National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA)How to read rail and truck placards
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