A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.
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My Family of Essential Workers
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What does it mean to be an essential worker during a pandemic? What is it like sharing a household with someone whose life is at risk when they go to work for the day?
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Hammer and Hope: Danny Glover on the Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama
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TRNN Editor in Chief Maximillian drove 14 hours from Baltimore to Bessemer to sit down with Glover and talk about why this vote is so significant and how Amazon workers in Bessemer.
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An Alabama Amazon Worker’s Case for Unionization
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Jennifer Bates, an employee of the Bessemer fulfillment center, explains why the forthcoming vote is so monumental.
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God’s Work: Labor in the Church
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Rev. Lindsey Joyce of the Institute for Christian Socialism reflects on what it means to serve her community.
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The Rank-and-File Push to Get Cops Out of the Labor Movement
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Union members speak about why police have no place in the labor movement.
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In The Gap
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In The Gap features everyday Black women and experts alike sharing their personal experiences and insights on how the gender pay gap, pay discrimination and systemic inequality affects the lives—and livelihoods—of Black women.
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Belabored Podcast #200: Back to the Streets of Chicago
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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.
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Belabored Podcast #199: Radical Seattle, with Cal Winslow
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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.
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Pandemic, protests and profits
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Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.
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The cost of COVID-19
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With millions of people unemployed because of the coronavirus, Reveal’s Aaron Glantz looks at how the economic fallout is affecting homeowners and renters – and whether this crisis could end with people losing the very homes they’re forced to isolate themselves in.