As the coronavirus spreads across the world, we discuss what it means for workers in healthcare, the gig economy, and other frontline industries.
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Belabored Podcast #187: After the GM Strike, Now What?
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The strike at GM is over, the deal has been ratified, and what have the workers learned? What has the country learned? We pick apart the details, the history, and what remains to fight for.
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Belabored Podcast #186: “A Boss Is a Boss”
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Two organizers discuss recent efforts to unionize nonprofit workers. Plus: an interview with Chicago teacher Kenzo Shibata about the first day on the picket line.
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Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops
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Artificial stone used to make kitchen and bathroom countertops has been linked to cases of death and irreversible lung injury in workers who cut, grind and polish this increasingly popular material.
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Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee
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General Motors workers took to the picket lines this week around the United States, in an unexpected and major strike that has long-term implications. We talk to autoworker Sean Crawford about the strike and what’s at stake. Then, from the UK, as the Labour party gathers for its annual conference and The World Transformed festival, we bring you an extended interview with Jason Moyer-Lee of the Independent Workers Great Britain (IWGB), a new union organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers to video game programmers—everyone, in other words, that the rest of the labor movement tends to say can’t be unionized. We learn how they’ve done it and more.
We also check in on gig economy workers in California after a big victory, and Kickstarter employees who’ve filed charges of retaliation for union activity. For Argh, we talk about yoga instructors unionizing, and think about what stake unions have in fighting for housing justice for all.
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Belabored Podcast #183: Troublemaking in Asia
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‘There’s a whole world of labor activism outside the confines of the United States, so we’re devoting this episode to a breakthrough event in Asia last month.’
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Enemy of Public Schools
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How one man has spent 25 years thwarting bond money for rural districts, including Worthington, MN.
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Belabored Podcast #182: (Slowly) Seizing the Means of Production
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How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it?
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Sex Workers Go to City Hall!
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Members of the Sex Worker Organizing Project (SWOP) Minneapolis and Feminist Strip Club (FSC) respond to a hearing of the Public Health, Environment, Civil Rights, and Engagement Committee of the Minneapolis City Council regarding changes to the Adult Entertainment ordinance.
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What The Future Holds For Labor Unions
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“Beaten Down, Worked Up” — longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on the future of unions.
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The Children in The Fields
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Thanks to a loophole in U.S. child labor laws, farmworker kids can pick crops as young as age 10. But education offers a path out of poverty, if the kids can stay in school.