On this hour-long episode of City Works, Laura speaks to the political directors of three unions to discuss what’s at stake for workers in the 2024 presidential election, and post-electoral strategies to keep organized labor on the offense.

On this special episode of City Works, Laura takes us through the last year of conversations with organizers from the UAW, the WGAE, and the PSC, as well as local labor advocates in NY, to explore the resurgence of labor activity around the country.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders talks to Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, attorney Richard Winsten, and reporter Amir Khafagy, about the rise of immigrant construction worker deaths in the city and the organizing being done to reverse it.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks with Vincent Alvarez of the NYC Central Labor Council and Council Member Carmen De La Rosa about the current state of organized labor in the city, and the impact unions have had on their own lives.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks with Richard Blum from the Legal Aid Society and Joanna Wuest from Mount Holyoke College, to talk about the rise and importance of LGBTQ+ leadership in the organized labor movement.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks with James Davis from the PSC, and Anne Balay from SEIU Local 509, about the adjunct professors struggling with low pay, long hours, and insecure employment in colleges around the country.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks with Mikhael Simmonds from CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Virginia Doellgast from Cornell ILR, about the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders interviews CUNY SLU's Kafui Attoh and Cameron Black and Georgetown’s Katie Wells about some remarkable transformations in the labor market that are reimagining the way people work and earn a living.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Brian Schneck, President of UAW Local 259, and Jane Slaughter, co-founder of Labor Notes, about the UAW’s historic strike and victory against the “big three” automakers.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to labor historian Steve Fraser and Nina Mast, an economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, about the EPI’s recent report on the alarming increase in child labor across the country.