[EVENT | December 14] Belabored Live: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives

[EVENT | December 14] Belabored Live: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, the co-hosts of the Belabored podcast, will gather some of the smartest thinkers about labor and unions to look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.

Metro-North train conductors in late July (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

On Monday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m. (EST), Belabored co-hosts Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen will gather some of the smartest thinkers on labor and unions for a live podcast episode looking back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers. Join them and their guests:

Jane McAlevey is the Nations strikes correspondent, an organizer, author, and scholar, and a senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center. Her most recent  book, A Collective Bargain, Unions, Organizing & the Fight for Democracy, is out now from HarperCollins.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is the executive editor of www.globalafricanworker.com, the former president of TransAfrica Forum, and long-time writer and activist who has spent most of his adult life in the left and the trade union movement.

Rebecca Dixon is executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP).

We’ll be streaming the event on Zoom. To watch and submit questions live during the event, you’ll need to RSVP here.


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