Belabored Podcast #156: Striking Amazon
On Amazon Prime Day warehouse workers around the world took action against the company. We hear about some of the organizing going on in fulfillment centers from Germany to New Jersey.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Podcast #155: The Future of Collective Action
Organizers representing teachers, housekeepers, graduate students, and airline workers discuss union power in the wake of the Janus decision.
Belabored Podcast #154: After Janus, with Charlotte Garden
The day labor has been dreading is here: the Janus v. AFSCME case was decided by the Supreme Court, and the public sector is now “right-to-work.” But what does this actually mean for workers?
Belabored Podcast #153: Workers On the Frontline Today and Tomorrow
We check in on worker-led activism across the country, with interviews on UPS and AT&T strikes, behind-the-scenes resistance at Google, and the public banking movement.
Belabored Podcast #152: SCOTUS’s Epic Fail, with Celine McNicholas
Economist Celine McNicholas breaks down what last week’s Supreme Court ruling means for workers—and why more individual arbitration is bad news.
Belabored Podcast #151: Empowering the Souls of Poor Folk, with Rev. Liz Theoharis
Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s campaign, joins us to talk about why people are marching across the country against poverty and for economic justice.
Belabored Podcast #150: Lessons Learned on the Picket Line
As education strikes continue to rock the country, we talk with two striking workers—Ian Bradley Perrin, a graduate employee at Columbia University, and Arizona teacher Noah Karvelis.
Trump’s Triangle Fire
The blaze that killed a Trump Tower resident in early April recalls a long of history of developers and corporations putting profit over safety—an ethos that informs not only Trump’s business but his presidency.
A Strike Against Trumpism at Columbia
Faced with the unionization of its graduate workers, Columbia University has aligned itself not with free speech and enlightenment, but with the Trump administration.
Belabored Podcast #149: Voices from the Labor Notes Conference 2018
In a series of interviews from Labor Notes, Sarah and Michelle talk to worker-organizers from South Korea, Puerto Rico, Minnesota, and beyond about building rank-and-file power around the globe.
Belabored Podcast #148: Organizing Outside the Law, at Labor Notes
How do we advocate for workers when the rules are rigged against us? Sarah and Michelle sat down with four teacher organizers for a special panel discussion at the 2018 Labor Notes conference.
Belabored Podcast #147: Retailpocalypse Again? With Carrie Gleason
As Toys “R” Us shuts down, we talk with Carrie Gleason of the Fair Workweek Initiative about the future of retail—an industry that employs ten percent of working Americans.
Britain: Universities on Strike
British university lecturers are in their fourth week of a militant, historic strike—taking a stand not just against austerity, but for a more humane, democratic higher education system.
Belabored Podcast #146: West Virginia Teachers Win
We talk to three West Virginia teachers about why they went on strike, how they won, and how the labor movement can carry their momentum forward.
West Virginia Teachers Walk Out
Walking off the job for the first time in nearly thirty years, West Virginia teachers are channeling the spirit of their state’s historic, militant labor movement.
