In the early months of the pandemic, meatpacking plants emerged as deadly hot spots for COVID-19.
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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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Food Service Workers Rally Demanding Industry-Wide Reform
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Hundreds of service industry workers with ROC MN called for workplace organizing to combat the racism, sexism, and labor exploitation rampant in the industry and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic
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FRONTLINE: Covid’s Hidden Toll
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How the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers who have helped keep America fed during the pandemic.
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Protesters Demand Action for Home Care Workers and Clients
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On July 1st home care workers & clients demand emergency funding increase from legislators as low pay & benefits continue to hurt seniors & people with disabilities facing a“care crisis” made worse by COVID-19
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Worker Action at Tattersall
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Tattersall front of house and bottlers have decided to unionize with Unite Here! Local 17. Tattersall Distilling management have declined to recognize their union.
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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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Seward Co-op Workers Hold a 2pm Work Stoppage
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The workers called upon their own store leadership and their union UFCW Local 663 to publicly support the “defunding” and “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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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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Postal Workers from Burned S. Minneapolis Station Rally in Solidarity with #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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The press conference was followed by solidarity march to 38th and Chicago (site of George Floyd’s murder)
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John Oliver: Defunding the Police
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As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.