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Autoworker Sean Crawford and Sociology Professor Ruth Milkman join us to debrief. The post Belabored Podcast #187: After the GM Strike, Now What? appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Two organizers discuss recent efforts to unionize nonprofit workers. Plus: an interview with Chicago teacher Kenzo Shibata about the first day on the picket line. The post Belabored Podcast #186: “A Boss Is a Boss” appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

An inside look at the gig economy. Plus: updates from the GM strike, a teachers' strike looming in Chicago, and more. The post Belabored Podcast #185: Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker. The post Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia. The post Belabored Podcast #183: Troublemaking in Asia appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it? The post Belabored Podcast #182: (Slowly) Seizing the Means of Production appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Following Hong Kong's first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor's role in the protests. The post Belabored Podcast #181: Hong Kong Pushed to the Edge appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week's protests and the ongoing fight against corruption. The post Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The post Belabored Podcast #179: Samsung’s Labor Abuses appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals. The post Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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.