Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger
Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
Winter 2020
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Belabored Podcast #170: An Amazon Autopsy, with Camille Rivera
An interview with RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.
Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson
We’re joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.
State of the Unions
The latest numbers on union membership in the public and private sectors are not pretty.
Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye
What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.
Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
A report from the picket line.
L.A. Teachers Prepare to Strike
Here’s what’s at stake.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Wage Woes
Unemployment is at its lowest since 1969, yet the average American worker remains badly underpaid. Why?
Belabored Podcast #165: Communities Unite for Border Resistance, with Cosecha Movement
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
Belabored Podcast #164: Scott Walker’s Gone, Now What? With Eleni Schirmer
Bye Scott Walker.
There Is Power in This Union
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
