Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee
We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker.
We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker.
How did ultra-wealthy families like the Kochs, Scaifes, Olins, and Bradleys use their fortunes to reshape American politics?
A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia.
How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it?
A leftist’s guide to the conservative movement, one episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
Following Hong Kong’s first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor’s role in the protests.
The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week’s protests and the ongoing fight against corruption.
South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals.
What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.
The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.
Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?