On today's Good Work, some good news! NYC Taxi Drivers get some debt relief, the countries outlook on unions is massively turning positive, and the four day work week is getting some traction. Plus we explore some more underappreciated jobs, like Cleaners, Sports Referees, Visual Effects Artists and much more.
Happy Laborador Day!
It’s Labor Day! And we’re a podcast about labor. What are the odds? Today we’re talking about the MLB Minor Leagues’ unionization efforts, the first Chipotle victory, a company who needs you to drive a nicer car, the GOP’s planned war on labor, and much more. Plus, the origin of Labor Day and whether or not it’s truly a day for the labor force.
Reverse Peephole
We're back talking all about proud union member Robert De Niro's new Queens film studio being built by non-union workers, Starbucks employees continuing to lead the modern day labor movement, and Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras and the thousands of partnerships with police departments around the country using them unconstitutionally. All that plus the "quiet quitting" fad circulating the internet as well as at home employee surveillance and more!
Beware of Hoffa w/ Parvesh Cheena
Actor Parvesh Cheena is joining us to talk about the importance of unions in the world of entertainment, SAG/AFTRA, The Unite for Strength party, having time to give and how APALA changed his outlook and made him a fighter. Plus wage transparency, corporate mergers, actors working conditions and fair shares, diversity and BIPOC women in unions, empathy, generational jumps, rand so much more.
Finland Doesn't Exist
This week we're discussing America's Test Kitchen workers looking to join the CWA, gift subscription burdens, rampant child labor in an Alabama Hyundai factory, and nobody wanting to work "anymore" for the past 100 years all before exploring whether or not unions actually work. How does the US compare to other heavily unionized countries? Where does the US rank in the American Dream?! The answer may shock you! But it probably won't.