Belabored Stories: “I Was Trying To Be an Ethical and Responsible Healthcare Worker”
A pharmacy technician who tested positive for COVID-19 worries that not enough has been done to protect his coworkers—and that he faces a backlash for speaking out.
Fall 2024
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Know Your Enemy #17: Longtime Listener, First-Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
Belabored Stories: The Buses Are Busy in the South Bronx
Wayne Lizardi’s route is operating on a reduced schedule, but his bus is still crowded with passengers traveling to work.
Belabored Stories: Weary at Walmart
“Please tell people to stop thanking grocery workers for working. We don’t have a choice. You can thank us by staying home.”
Belabored Stories: Postmates Drivers are Refusing All Chipotle Deliveries
“$2.50 is not a wage. It is a guacamole upcharge.”
Hot & Bothered Podcast: Debt vs. Democracy, with Astra Taylor
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Astra about what the coronavirus pandemic has to do with eating meat, whether we really need a technocratic savior, and why debt relief is inherently tied to democracy.
Belabored Stories: Anxiety and Upheaval for Adjunct Professors
Academic instructors who were already underemployed and insecure before the crisis face an uncertain future, with little prospect for federal relief.
Belabored Podcast #196: How the Pandemic Will Change Labor, with Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how the labor movement can cope with the crisis and salvage itself.
Belabored Stories: “Like a Big Punch in the Gut”
A server who worked at IHOP for twelve years had her final paycheck withheld until she agreed to return her uniform and officially quit.
Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Belabored Stories: After Deaths, Fear Rises at Walmart
Walmart is on a hiring spree as workers fear for their lives.
Belabored Stories: Cramped at the Call Center
At a company that provides services to public health agencies tracking the coronavirus, workers sit in cubicles “like sardine cans.”
Belabored Stories: Demanding Protections at the Drive-Thru Window
McDonald’s boasted about distributing protective equipment to employees. But one worker said masks, hand sanitizer, and gloves were only available “for a brief period of time. So it was only to get us to be quiet.”
Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
Belabored Stories: Locked out of Unemployment Insurance
States like California have yet to roll out a system to process gig workers’ unemployment-assistance applications. Rideshare drivers are running on fumes.
