Belabored: How Workers Escape, with Saket Soni
In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.
Spring 2025
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Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.
Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey
The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.
Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee
Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.
Belabored: When COVID Never Ends
Long COVID is a labor rights issue.
Belabored: Pandemic Black Fridays are Twice as Tiring, with Cynthia Murray and Lisa Harris
Walmart and Kroger workers discuss the added stress of working during the holidays.
Belabored: Courier Class War
Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.
Belabored: Mental Health Workers’ Double Pandemic, with Kellie Benson
A mental healthcare provider discusses the pandemic’s effects on her work.
Belabored: The Death and Life of Labor Journalism
Labor journalists discuss media coverage of the recent strike wave in Britain.
Belabored: The Union on the Hill, with Janae Washington and Taylor Doggett
Two congressional staffers discuss the push to unionize Capitol Hill.
Belabored: Shutting Down the Ports, with Steve Gerrard and Liverpool Dockworkers
British dockworkers join the podcast to talk about ongoing strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe.
Belabored: Strippers Seek Justice at Work, with Velveeta
A group of strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood hopes to break new ground in organizing their field nationwide as part of the Actors’ Equity Association.
Belabored: Wildcat Oil Strikes and the Energy Crisis, with Ewan Gibbs
In Scotland, Grangemouth oil refinery workers are just the latest to realize their power after two years of pandemic, when they were deemed essential—and watched industry profits spike—while they accepted pay freezes.
