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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson
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It’s been a week of labor whiplash as federal workers returned to work, but remained wary of more chaos ahead amid ongoing gridlock on Capitol Hill. We talk to Sara Nelson, the flight attendant and union advocate whose leadership and call for a general strike helped end the shutdown, and George Faraday of Good Jobs Nation, about the impact of the shutdown on federal subcontracted workers and the ongoing privatization crisis in government.
In other news, we discuss the Colorado teacher strike and aftermath, Honduran farmworkers mobilizing for union ri...