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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
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It’s a week of walkouts and shutdowns for workers nationwide. We talk to teachers raising hell in the City of Angels and discuss their demands with United Teachers of Los Angeles President Alex Caputo-Pearl. We also check in with Jay O’Neal about how last year’s wave of teacher strikes is still reverberating in West Virginia, and on prospects for hundreds of thousands of federal workers as they mount a major legal challenge against the record-setting government shutdown.
There’s also fresh labor activism afoot at Amazon warehouses in Minne...