Belabored

What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?

The post Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.

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Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday's strike.

The post Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.

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The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.

The post Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?

The post Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.

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An interview with RWDSU's Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.

The post Belabored Podcast #170: An Amazon Autopsy, with Camille Rivera appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

We're joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.

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What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.

The post Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye appeared first on Dissent Magazine.