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Five organizers talk about this year's May Day, which saw immigrant workers taking to the streets around the country.

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Trump's promises notwithstanding, many factory workers in the Rust Belt are just as frustrated after the election as they were before. Sarah Jaffe speaks to three labor organizers in Indiana to understand why.

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Organizers and participants in three recent strikes—the Yemeni bodega strike, the taxi workers' strike at JFK airport, and last year's Verizon strike—discuss labor under Trump.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom talks about her new book, Lower Ed, and why the expansion of the for-profit college industry is a labor issue.

The post Belabored Podcast #124: College Dreams and College Schemes, with Tressie McMillan Cottom appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Actor and activist Danny Glover and worker Morris Mock talk about the March on Mississippi and the fight for a union at the state's Nissan plant.

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Following last week's Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.

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Will Trump's renegotiated trade deals be any better for workers—in the United States and abroad—than the old ones?

The post Belabored Podcast #121: Trading Our Rights Away? With Arthur Stamoulis and John Cavanagh appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk about Trump's cabinet picks, and what they mean for labor.

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Bill Londrigan of the Kentucky AFL-CIO joins us to talk about the right-to-work bill that just passed in his state, and the fight to maintain union power under a hostile regime.

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Rosanna Aran and Christina Fox of #SomosVisibles join us to talk about immigrant organizing in New York under Trump.

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