Belabored Podcast #143: Planning for a Post-Trump Future, with Rachel Cohen
If the Democrats reclaim power in 2020, what should labor do?
Spring 2025
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Belabored Podcast #142: Smartphone Sweatshops in Asia, with Joe DiGangi
Do you know where your smartphone was made? A new in-depth report reveals dangerous conditions in Samsung factories in Vietnam.
Belabored Podcast #141: Union for the Holidays
Holiday travel can be stressful, and doubly so for the workers who make that travel possible. We hear about the flight attendants and baggage handlers organizing this holiday season.
What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?
We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.
Belabored Podcast #140: Resisting the Taxpocalypse
Protests have been going on around the country over the Republican tax bill. We’re joined by some of the organizers.
Belabored Podcast #139: Fighting Harassment on the Farm
We talk with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about organizing to fight sexual harassment of farm workers.
Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics
In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited.
Belabored Podcast #138: Wobblies of the World, Then and Now, with Peter Cole
The history of the IWW—and its concept of “One Big Union”—holds lessons for the labor movement today.
Belabored Podcast #137: Sex, Power, and Labor Rights, with Ariane Hegewisch
Sexual harassment is a labor issue.
Belabored Podcast #136: Countdown to Janus, with Andy Stettner
Janus v. AFSCME is the Supreme Court case labor has been dreading. Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk what it means for workers and unions.
Belabored Podcast #135: How Single-Payer Went from Margin to Mainstream, with Michael Lighty
Medicare for All has moved from radical to mainstream in a span of just months. Michael Lighty of National Nurses United joins us to talk about the role of healthcare workers in the fight for single-payer.
Belabored Podcast #134: Defending Migrants through Hell and High Water
We talk to DACA recipients and defenders around the country, from Texas to New York, about Trump’s decision to overturn President Obama’s protections for immigrant youth.
Belabored Podcast #133: Laboring Against Privatization, with Joseph A. McCartin
Joseph McCartin joins us to talk about the history of public worker unionism, the legacy of PATCO, and how today’s workers can build power across the workforce.
Belabored Podcast #132: What Happened in Mississippi? with Chris Brooks
Last week, in a highly anticipated union election, workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi voted against unionizing with the UAW. Chris Brooks from Labor Notes joins us to talk about the result.
Belabored Podcast #131: A Crisis of Care, with June Barrett and Saba Waheed
Home care is one of the most rapidly growing fields in the country, but workers and care recipients will be under threat if Trump slashes Medicaid. We talk about what’s at stake in the healthcare reform fight.
