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.
Spring 2025
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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.
Belabored: Delivery Workers Stuck in Searing Heat
UPS workers are sharing photographs of triple-digit temperature readings inside their trucks. The Teamsters say drivers are suffering from heat-related illnesses at an alarming rate.
Belabored: Train Strikes Revive British Unions, with Alex Gordon
The president of the RMT joins the podcast to talk about the union’s recent strike and what’s next for rail workers.
Belabored: Reproductive Justice Is Labor Justice
What the fall of Roe means for workers.
Belabored: Working Time Struggles, Live from Labor Notes
Donna Jo Marks, Carlos Perez, and Jessica Wender-Shubow join Belabored for a live discussion about the politics of time spent at work.
Belabored: Game Workers Unite and Win, with Emma Kinema
Workers at a division of games conglomerate Activision Blizzard shocked the industry by becoming one of the first collective bargaining units in U.S. gaming.
Belabored: Women Leading the Labor Movement
Organizers of unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, and the New York Times discuss how their experiences as women shape their work.
Belabored: What’s Up With Inflation, with J.W. Mason
Economist J.W. Mason joins the podcast to talk about inflation and how to organize around price increases.
Belabored: Abolish Student Debt, with the Debt Collective
With a pandemic pause on student loan repayments set to expire this year, debt abolitionists have stepped up their campaign to get Washington to cancel education debt entirely.
Belabored: Winning in Logistics Work, with Michelle Valentin Nieves and Laleh Khalili
A two-part episode on logistics labor, with Michelle Valentin Nieves of the Amazon Labor Union, and Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade.
Belabored: Retail Organizing at REI
Retail has historically been one of the hardest sectors to organize, but workers at REI are bucking that trend.
Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19
This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.
Belabored: Cyborg Taylorism in the Warehouse, with Beth Gutelius
How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?
Belabored: Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen
Over the past several decades, the shift of public goods and services into the control of corporations has taken a toll on their quality, increased inequality, undermined labor and civil rights, and made government less accountable. How can we restore our ownership of the commons?
