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Belabored Podcast #196: How the Pandemic Will Change Labor, with Bill Fletcher, Jr.  

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 24, 2020

Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how the labor movement can cope with the crisis and salvage itself.



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Belabored Stories: “Like a Big Punch in the Gut”  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 24, 2020

A server who worked at IHOP for twelve years had her final paycheck withheld until she agreed to return her uniform and officially quit.



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Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid  

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ April 23, 2020

On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.



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Belabored Stories: After Deaths, Fear Rises at Walmart  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 22, 2020

Walmart is on a hiring spree as workers fear for their lives.



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Belabored Stories: Cramped at the Call Center  

Sarah Jaffe ▪ April 21, 2020

At a company that provides services to public health agencies tracking the coronavirus, workers sit in cubicles “like sardine cans.”



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Belabored Stories: Demanding Protections at the Drive-Thru Window  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 21, 2020

McDonald’s boasted about distributing protective equipment to employees. But one worker said masks, hand sanitizer, and gloves were only available “for a brief period of time. So it was only to get us to be quiet.”



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Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 19, 2020

Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.



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Belabored Stories: Locked out of Unemployment Insurance  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 19, 2020

States like California have yet to roll out a system to process gig workers’ unemployment-assistance applications. Rideshare drivers are running on fumes.



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Belabored Stories: What If Nurses Ran the Healthcare System?  

Sarah Jaffe ▪ April 17, 2020

“We take in a lot and don’t talk about it,” a nurse in Chicago said. But healthcare workers are talking now—not just about how to save their patients, but about rebuilding the system from the bottom up.



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Belabored Stories: Postal Workers Want Investment and Hazard Pay  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 17, 2020

The broken federal funding system is reflected in the dangerous conditions faced by many mail carriers.



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Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel  

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ April 16, 2020

With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.



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Belabored Stories: Union Busting in a Disaster  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 15, 2020

Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.



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Belabored Stories: Farmworkers Need Field Hospitals  

Sarah Jaffe ▪ April 15, 2020

Workers in the fields in Immokalee, Florida, are demanding public health infrastructure that takes into account cramped living and travel conditions. “Social distancing is not possible.”



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Belabored Stories: Cancel Rent  

Michelle Chen ▪ April 14, 2020

A group of laid-off service workers in Denver is pushing for a total cancellation of rent, mortgage, and utility payments, for at least the next ninety days.



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Belabored Stories: A Healthcare Worker Day of Action  

Sarah Jaffe ▪ April 14, 2020

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that “any hospital operating off the crisis protocols should let him know,” said one nurse in Brooklyn. “Well, this is us letting him know.”



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