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Belabored Podcast #181: Hong Kong Pushed to the Edge

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ August 9, 2019

Following Hong Kong’s first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor’s role in the protests.

Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ July 26, 2019

The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week’s protests and the ongoing fight against corruption.

Belabored Podcast #179: Samsung’s Labor Abuses

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ July 12, 2019

South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ June 21, 2019

Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals.

Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ June 7, 2019

What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?

Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 24, 2019

Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.

Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 10, 2019

Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.

Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 26, 2019

Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.

Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 16, 2019

The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.

Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 30, 2019

Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?