Teamsters Demand Stronger Protections as States Reopen
As commercial activity ramps up, the union is demanding stronger safety protections at food processing plants.
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Belabored Podcast #200: Back to the Streets of Chicago
For the 200th episode of Belabored, Sarah and Michelle speak to Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates about what it’s like to be an educator and an organizer during a pandemic and an uprising against police brutality.
Workers at the Los Angeles Apparel Factory Are Getting Sick
In L.A., thousands of garment workers manufacture clothes for dismal pay in unsanitary factories. Now these workers are catching COVID-19.
How Economic Assumptions Uphold Racist Systems
Racism shapes how economics is taught and practiced. When we fail to scrutinize neoclassical assumptions, they perpetuate racist outcomes.
The Bus Drivers’ Refusal
Transit unions around the country have declined requests from police departments to transport protesters to jail.
Belabored Podcast #199: Radical Seattle, with Cal Winslow
For a short time in 1919, the working class ran the city of Seattle. Radicals experienced intense police violence, and those deemed “outside agitators” faced deportation. The story of a general strike.
As Florida Reopens, the Health Crisis in Immokalee Deepens
“Unfortunately, we see a lot of people getting sick and not receiving the proper medical care and resources that they need,” one farmworker said. “For the governor to continuously ignore us is incredibly irresponsible.”
Belabored Podcast #198: Not Safe to Work
What should you do if your boss is pressuring you to return to an unsafe workplace?
“We Risk Our Lives Every Day”: Building Service Workers Strike
Workers at 75 Wall Street in New York are demanding management return to the bargaining table.
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.
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.
To Keep Meat on the Table, Workers Need a Voice
Essential workers need genuine, collective empowerment, not just a monetary reward or a rhetorical pat on the back.
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.
