Latest Laura flanders Podcast Episodes

Special: A Year of Strikes and Organizing

CUNY TV's City Works - July 01, 2024 16:00 - 27 minutes
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.

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Danger on the Job

CUNY TV's City Works - June 03, 2024 16:00 - 27 minutes
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.

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New York's Labor Movement: Unions Are Winning Again

CUNY TV's City Works - May 06, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes
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.

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Pride at Work

CUNY TV's City Works - April 01, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes
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.

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Adjunct Faculty: The Growing Crisis in Higher Ed

CUNY TV's City Works - March 04, 2024 17:02 - 25 minutes
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.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Promise and the Peril

CUNY TV's City Works - February 05, 2024 17:00 - 24 minutes
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.

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Out With the Old: Reimagining the Way People Work and Earn

CUNY TV's City Works - January 01, 2024 17:00 - 26 minutes
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.

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Making History: The 2023 UAW Strike

CUNY TV's City Works - December 04, 2023 17:00 - 26 minutes
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.

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Children at Work

CUNY TV's City Works - November 06, 2023 17:00 - 28 minutes
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.

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Working on the Railroad: The Fight for Railworkers' Rights

CUNY TV's City Works - October 02, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - Video
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to labor historian Jeff Schuhrke and organizer Ron Kaminkow about the critical working conditions faced by our nation’s railroad workers and their fight for workplace justice.

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Hollywood on Strike

CUNY TV's City Works - September 04, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, staff writer for Jacobin Magazine Alex Press, and WGAE council member Josh Gondelman sit down with Laura Flanders to talk about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA’s ongoing strikes in the entertainment industry.

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Special: Rebuilding Labor’s Power for the 21st Century

CUNY TV's City Works - August 07, 2023 16:00 - 57 minutes
On this special one-hour edition of City Works, new developments and new strategies from organizers, union leaders and labor scholars who participated at the recent SLU conference, “How Workers Win: Rebuilding Labor’s Power for the 21st Century”.

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New Protections for Workers and “How Workers Win" Conference

CUNY TV's City Works - June 12, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders talks to Irene Tung, a Senior Researcher at NELP, and Ellen Dichner, former Chief Counsel with the NLRB, about how legislation is aiming to push back against unjust firings and other abuses by employers.

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A New Frontier for Labor: Video Game Workers Get Organized

CUNY TV's City Works - May 01, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes - Video
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders is joined by CWA organizer Erin Mahoney, Polygon journalist Nicole Carpenter, and QA tester Rhyanna Eichner for an inside look at the unprecedented push to unionize the video games industry.

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The Threat to NYC Public Housing and the Fight to Keep It Public

CUNY TV's City Works - April 03, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders is joined by tenant advocates Jasmin Sanchez and James Rodriguez to discuss the importance of public housing to New York’s working class, and efforts to protect it from privatization.

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A Life in Activism and Advocacy: Journalist Juan González

CUNY TV's City Works - February 06, 2023 22:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to journalist Juan González about his long career in social activism, the history of American journalism, and his advice for new generations of organizers and advocates.

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Worker Cooperatives: Building a Better Workplace

CUNY TV's City Works - January 02, 2023 22:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Rebecca Lurie, LaRay Brown, and NYC Council Member Sandy Nurse about the recent enthusiasm surrounding worker cooperatives and their potential to build more just workplaces.

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2022 Midterm Election Aftermath: A Reporter Roundtable

CUNY TV's City Works - December 06, 2022 13:13 - 27 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders hosts a reporter roundtable with journalists Rozina Ali, Gabrielle Gurley, and Kim Kelly, to talk about the 2022 midterm election and how working people figured into the results

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Gender Equality in the Workplace: The Struggle Continues

CUNY TV's City Works - November 08, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Ellen Cassedy, co-founder of the 9to5 movement, and Sarita Gupta, VP of U.S. Programs at the Ford Foundation, to discuss the history and current state of organizing women in offices and beyond.

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Organizing at Amazon and in the American Theatre

CUNY TV's City Works - October 04, 2022 00:30 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to organizers from both new and veteran unions, with Brett Daniels from the Amazon Labor Union and Joanne Borts from Actors’ Equity.

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Los Deliveristas: NYC App Delivery Workers

CUNY TV's City Works - September 06, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Ligia Guallpa, Joshua Wood and Andrew Wolf, three activists working to organize NYC’s app-based delivery workers for better working conditions in the often hazardous profession.

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The Future We Need: Organizing in the 21st Century

CUNY TV's City Works - June 07, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to the authors of a new book, The Future We Need, about organizing in new industries and beyond. And organizer Marianne LeNabat talks about the hard work that lies ahead of recent labor victories.

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A People's Guide to NYC & Wall Street's Grip on Pensions

CUNY TV's City Works - May 03, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks with Professor Penny Lewis about her new book, A People’s Guide to New York City. And an SLU digital event explores what role worker pension funds can play in building a progressive economy.

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Re-Imagining Elder Care in America

CUNY TV's City Works - April 05, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders examines the growing crisis in elder care with National Domestic Workers Alliance founder Ai-jen Poo, former NYC Deputy Mayor J. Philip Thompson and Public Health Professor Maggie Ornstein.

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Examining Racism's Economic and Health Impacts In America

CUNY TV's City Works - March 08, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, two outstanding thinkers, NYC Health Department First Deputy Commissioner Dr. Torian Easterling and author/journalist Heather McGhee, help unravel the fundamental inequality that holds back this nation.

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Solving the NYC Yellow Cab Debt Crisis

CUNY TV's City Works - February 08, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes
Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Bhairavi Desai, and NYC Taxi Owner/Driver, Richard Chow, speak to City Works host Laura Flanders about their historic campaign to alleviate the huge financial crisis faced by medallion owners.

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Organized Labor and the Global Climate Crisis

CUNY TV's City Works - January 04, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders speaks to the director of CUNY SLU’s International Program for Labor, Climate and Environment, Sean Sweeney, who recently attended the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Scotland.

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Challenging Monopoly and Bezosism

CUNY TV's City Works - December 07, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode, Zephyr Teachout and SLU's Samir Sonti talk about a renewed public interest in breaking up industrial monopolies. And Laura Flanders talks to columnist Christopher Mims about his new book “Arriving Today", and the global supply chain

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A Tale of Two Cities Revisited: NYC's Mayoral Transition

CUNY TV's City Works - November 02, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, the de Blasio administration is reexamined in a “Tale of Two Cities Revisited” panel discussion held by SLU, and by guest Deepak Bhargava, who talks about the progressive agenda and its prospects under the next mayor.

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State of the Unions & Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years Later

CUNY TV's City Works - October 05, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes
On this episode of City Works, Laura speaks to Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce about two reports that they co-authored: the annual State of the Unions Report, and Changing the Subject, a report on Occupy Wall Street and its effects ten years later

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