Generation Overworked

Generation Overworked

By Youth Against SweatshopsSociety & Culture
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Generation Overworked episodes

  • Chinatown Workers Speak Out: How Yuh-Line Niou & the Chinatown Elites Created a Racially-Targeted Wage Theft Crisis

    Yuh-Line Niou, a self-proclaimed "progressive" Asian American politician running for Congress, was recently rumored for being involved in money-laundering related to the Panama papers. If you really wanna dig up her actual involvement in theft, corruption, and money laundering that's backed up by concrete evidence, look no further than her own district, Manhattan Chinatown...

    Chinatown workers called Niou out as a defender of sweatshop bosses who stole $1 million of wages and big developers who destroyed Chinatown economy for their own interest. On July 24, in a protest against a group of wage-stealing bosses in Chinatown known as the "Gang of Four", workers condemned Yuh-Line for colluding and promoting these bosses despite knowing their law-breaking acts. Amidst the public outcry against anti-Asian violence, Yuh-Line nonetheless uses her Asian face to help maintain sweatshop bosses' exploitation of Chinese workers. Is this racism? If so, how do we fight it?

    03:31 Yuh-Line protects and promotes sweatshop bosses (Link)

    09:15 Yuh-Line is friend of Jonathan Chu, the notorious landlord who displaced Jing Fong Restaurant (Link)

    11:46 Wage theft is a widespread issue 

    16:57 SWEAT Bill, the legislation to stop wage theft (Link)

    21:35 Challenges of enforcing labor laws

    28 min
  • How overworking makes us collectively poorer (w/ Zishun Ning)

    This episode is devoted to those who think of "work fewer hours a day" as a lofty ideal. While our jobs certainly don't pay us enough to survive in cities like New York, the common-place bargain for more hours actually ends up making us even poorer. Zishun Ning from the Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign explains why. 

    31 min
  • Intro
    Welcome to GenO (Generation Overworked), a podcast brought to you by Youth Against Sweatshops. Why are so many of us working 60, 70, 80 hours a week? And our lives, friendships and relationships are always suffering and pushed to the side. Meanwhile so many of us are unemployed and underemployed. We face long stretches of having no income of spending hours upon hours, trying to find a job – jobs that both pay too little and demand too much freelance and part-time gigs that we piece together. So even when we aren’t working, our time does not belong to us. How do we try to overcome all this baggage? In the follow episodes, We’ll throw in some analysis and history, and we’ll share what we’ve learned from our on-the-ground organizing to improve working conditions. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive hot takes and future calls to actions.
    3 min
  • End the 24-hour workday NOW! (w/ The Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign)
    In the 1st episode of #genO by YAS (Youth Against Sweatshops), Sarah chats with Samantha and Yolanda about what young people have learned from the organized home care workers of the Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign. The episode ends with a special announcement of call to action on March 8, 2021, the International Working Women's Day. Join them to celebrate the revolutionary spirits and working women leadership on a day like this, by demanding the NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo to stop the systemic abuse of immigrant women workers & end the grueling 24-hour workday condition! A rally (in-person & virtual) will gather at the historical site of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at 12:00 PM (EST). Sign up for our newsletter.
    28 min

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Welcome to #genO, a podcast brought to you by Youth Against Sweatshops. Why are so many of us working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and still barely making ends meet? And our lives, friendships, and…