Belabored: General Strike in Palestine
Political economy researcher Riya Al-Sanah joins us from Haifa to talk about this week’s historic general strike.
Political economy researcher Riya Al-Sanah joins us from Haifa to talk about this week’s historic general strike.
The author of A Planet to Win talks about Biden’s infrastructure proposals and why care jobs are green jobs.
Worker centers organize workers excluded from labor regulations and disconnected from mainstream unions. They have brought fresh energy to the labor movement.
Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.
Rita Pasarell, former Albany legislative staffer and co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, discusses recent accusations against Andrew Cuomo.
Celine McNicholas of the Economic Policy Institute digs into the PRO Act and other labor policies currently on the table.
Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe talks about her new book, Work Won’t Love You Back.
California’s Proposition 22 locked in a second-tier status for gig economy workers. In the state and around the country, they’re still organizing for something better.
Alphabet Workers Union member Alex Hanna talks about Google’s labor politics, how a minority union can mobilize through direct action, and the future of organizing in the tech industry.
Rebecca Dixon, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Jane McAlevey look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.
A new book, Unions Renewed, suggests that labor needs to update its playbook for a new period of capitalist development.
While the presidential race ended with a narrow victory for the Democrats, the electorate revealed how sharply divided it is—what does it all mean for labor?
Trump and Pence claim that industrial jobs are “booming” under their leadership. In Lordstown and Indianapolis, local labor organizers tell a different story.
Community and labor groups are campaigning for equal benefits for undocumented immigrants and other workers excluded from the coronavirus relief packages.