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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #145: Rights and Rebellions, with Shaun Richman
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The labor movement often seems trapped between legislative attacks and its own learned helplessness. But there’s a renewed sense of militancy slowly coming to the surface—and no better sign of it than this week’s West Virginia teacher walkout, which has closed down every school district in the state. As the labor movement faces down Janus vs. AFSCME, which begins oral arguments this month at the Supreme Court and could have devastating consequences for public-sector unions, we talk with longtime labor organizer and strategist Shaun Richman, who’s been thinking about outside...