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.”
Fall 2024
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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.
Belabored Stories: What If Nurses Ran the Healthcare System?
“We take in a lot and don’t talk about it,” a nurse in Chicago said. But healthcare workers are talking now—not just about how to save their patients, but about rebuilding the system from the bottom up.
Belabored Stories: Postal Workers Want Investment and Hazard Pay
The broken federal funding system is reflected in the dangerous conditions faced by many mail carriers.
Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel
With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.
