“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.
The broken federal funding system is reflected in the dangerous conditions faced by many mail carriers.
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.
Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.
Workers in the fields in Immokalee, Florida, are demanding public health infrastructure that takes into account cramped living and travel conditions. “Social distancing is not possible.”
A group of laid-off service workers in Denver is pushing for a total cancellation of rent, mortgage, and utility payments, for at least the next ninety days.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that “any hospital operating off the crisis protocols should let him know,” said one nurse in Brooklyn. “Well, this is us letting him know.”
Millions of immigrant workers are toiling in frontline low-wage industries. But the CARES Act excludes many from its welfare provisions.
Grocery store workers have become an important point of human contact for customers isolated at home. “People are seeing you in a different light now.”
The director of Athena joins us to talk about why Amazon workers have been walking off the job.
General Electric workers want to use the company’s idled manufacturing facilities to make desperately needed lifesaving equipment.
Still hot… still bothered… and now facing a global crisis rivaled only by the climate emergency itself. The first episode in a new season of the Hot & Bothered podcast.
Amazon is hiring thousands of new workers. What happens when they feel they risk more by going to work than by refusing to show up?
If anything good can come of this massive experiment in remote teaching, a New York City teacher says, it should be “an end to the Silicon Valley fantasy that this is what school can be in the future.”
We are back for a new series of the Hot & Bothered podcast, with weekly episodes on climate politics in the time of coronavirus. But we won’t be able to do it without your support.
