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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Shutting Down the Ports, with Steve Gerrard and Liverpool Dockworkers
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Summer is over, but strike season is continuing in Great Britain, under not only a new prime minister but a new monarch. This week’s episode combines our ongoing coverage of British worker unrest with our intermittent series on logistics workers, as we discuss port strikes with Steve Gerrard, national coordinator for Unite the Union, and worker leaders from the port of Liverpool: John Lynch, Tommy Jennings, Ryan Healey, and Des Prescott. We discuss working through the COVID-19 pandemic, the combined port strikes at Felixstowe and Liverpool, the Tory plan to create “free...