The government shutdown is over, with the Democrats giving in to a deal that leaves DREAMers unprotected and Trump’s power unabated. Still, there will come a time when Trump is gone, and labor will have to pick up the pieces. Rachel Cohen, a DC-based freelance journalist, joins us to talk about her reporting, at The Intercept, on labor’s plans for the post-Trump future. What can we learn from the last two failures of major labor law reform? From other countries’ collective bargaining systems? Will the Democrats continue to cave? 

We also look at the surprising uptick in union membership in 2017, union wins at the Los Angeles Times and Slate, the prison strike in Florida and the attempt to impose work requirements for Medicaid. For Argh, we consider the immigrant workers who feed the people who are trying to deport them, and the history of democracy in the workplace. 

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