Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger
Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
An interview with RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.
We’re joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.
The latest numbers on union membership in the public and private sectors are not pretty.
What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.
A report from the picket line.
Here’s what’s at stake.
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Unemployment is at its lowest since 1969, yet the average American worker remains badly underpaid. Why?
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
Bye Scott Walker.
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.
Meg Reilly of the Campaign Workers Guild joins us to talk about the first movement to unionize the workers who canvass the streets, run the phone banks, and carry the clipboards.
The majority of Teamster members at UPS voted to reject a proposed contract; leadership says they’ll ratify it anyway. How did this happen? Nelson Lichtenstein joins us to discuss the ongoing conflict.