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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #57: Organizing the South, with Ben Speight
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In the wake of the defeat of UAW in Chattanooga, the spread of anti-worker “Right to Work” laws and the warped Tea-Party politics of Red State America, you might wonder whether the labor movement has a future in the South. Well, this week, we ask a Southerner. Ben Speight is a veteran orga...