Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger
Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
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Belabored Podcast #170: An Amazon Autopsy, with Camille Rivera
An interview with RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.
Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson
We’re joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.
Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye
What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.
Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
A report from the picket line.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Belabored Podcast #165: Communities Unite for Border Resistance, with Cosecha Movement
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
Belabored Podcast #164: Scott Walker’s Gone, Now What? With Eleni Schirmer
Bye Scott Walker.
Belabored Podcast #163: Organizing for Democracy, with Meg Reilly
Meg Reilly of the Campaign Workers Guild joins us to talk about the first movement to unionize the workers who canvass the streets, run the phone banks, and carry the clipboards.
Hot & Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong
Facing a deluge of doom-and-gloom reporting on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kate and Daniel get together to put things in perspective.
Belabored Podcast #162: A Struggle Over Union Democracy at UPS, with Nelson Lichtenstein
The majority of Teamster members at UPS voted to reject a proposed contract; leadership says they’ll ratify it anyway. How did this happen? Nelson Lichtenstein joins us to discuss the ongoing conflict.
Belabored Podcast #161: Workers Resist, Workers Rule
We look at two types of fights for workplace justice: the worker-owned cooperatives now mushrooming across the country, and a global protest at airports around the world.
Belabored Podcast #160: When One Job Isn’t Enough
In cities across the country, Marriott hotel workers are forced to work second jobs to pay the bills. We talk with two worker-organizers planning to strike for a fairer contract.
Belabored Podcast #159: Fight or Die, with Barbara Madeloni and Celeste Robinson
Workers in St. Paul, Minnesota are seeking to build on a major Fight for 15 victory in neighboring Minneapolis. Plus: An update on the teacher strike wave.
Belabored Podcast #158: A Victory for Labor in Missouri
This month Missouri voters rejected “right to work” at the ballot. Two organizers from the state join us to talk about the win and what the rest of the country can learn from their incredible success.
