Belabored Podcast #147: Retailpocalypse Again? With Carrie Gleason
Belabored Podcast #147: Retailpocalypse Again? With Carrie Gleason
As Toys “R” Us shuts down, we talk with Carrie Gleason of the Fair Workweek Initiative about the future of retail—an industry that employs ten percent of working Americans.
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We also check in on teacher uprisings with an update from Jersey City and more from the UK university strike, and updates as well from JetBlue flight attendants voting for a union and Disney workers’ struggle for fair pay. For Argh, we follow up with yet more teacher strikes, this time in Puerto Rico, and threats to public-service loan forgiveness.
Belabored will be at Labor Notes 2018! Come see our live recording and stop by our booth. More information on the Labor Notes site.
NewsJersey City teachers go on strike for the first time in 20 years (Think Progress)
Michelle: Are Disney Workers Having a Hard Time Making Ends Meet? (The Nation)
Thousands of JetBlue flight attendants to vote on joining Transport Workers Union (New York Daily News)
Sarah: Consider the Flight Attendant (New Republic)
#NoCapitulation: How one hashtag saved the UK university strike (Wired)
Conversation, with teachers Emily Comer, Jay O’Neal, and Leah Clay StoneCarrie Gleason at the Center for Popular Democracy
Private Equity: Looting “R” Us (American Prospect)
Sarah: America’s Massive Retail Workforce Is Tired of Being Ignored (Racked)
Sarah and Michelle: Belabored Podcast #130: Retail Warriors (Dissent)
Michelle: Retail Jobs Don’t Have to Be Awful (The Nation)
Michelle: The Fight for $15 Is Starting to Fight for Fair Schedules (The Nation)
Argh, I Wish I’d Written That!Sarah: Monique Dols, Puerto Rico teachers will strike for their schools (Socialist Worker)
Michelle: Raina Lipsitz, ‘Sick With Worry’: A GOP Bill to Eliminate the Public-Service Loan Forgiveness Threatens Social-Work Sector (The Nation)
