Displaced from Chinatown Restaurants and Waiting for Unemployment
Two restaurant workers tell their stories.
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Epidemiology Students at Harvard Want a Contract
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
Belabored Podcast #197: Food Workers and the Virus
The illness in the food chain should remind us that we are all only as healthy as the sickest person in society.
Sephora Makes Plans to Reopen
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
Hot & Bothered Podcast: A New Commonwealth, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Jedediah about his vision of commonwealth politics; the challenges of organizing in a socially distanced world; where the law fits in; and whether coming together also means naming new enemies.
Belabored Stories: NYU Teaching Assistants Are on a Sick-Out
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
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.
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.
