There is no way to downplay the risks to U.S. frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic—and I’ve dug into that in the past month or so, in our various segments talking about workers in health care, postal service, hog and poultry processing, airlines, rail, and subways. It’s dangerous and frightening—and it’s exponentially more terrifying when […]
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Episode 179: Global Workers Face COVID-19 Rampage With Little Defense; The Corona “Dirty Dozen”
Posted on 29 April 2020.
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Episode 100: The Human Pain In Every Morsel You Eat; NY Progressives Chalk Up Big Wins
Posted on 19 September 2018.
A quick “birthday” promo: you are listening to the 100th episode of the podcast. Make today the day you become one of our small financial supporters—go to workinglife.org, click on the Patreon link and sign up to be a monthly contributor. Every bite of food you take contains a lot of sweat and tears of […]
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Episode 5: Burning People, Burning Planet–Capitalism Ain’t Pretty
Posted on 23 November 2016.
Jonathan goes digging into the world of the global sweatshop, talking with global workers rights advocate Shawna Bader-Blau on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Bangladesh factory fire that killed 110 garment workers and injured thousands more. We also talk Just Transition–how workers and communities will be looked after as we transition from […]
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