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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: Summer of strikes: Looking at the labour movement now
Description: Guest: Larry Savage, professor of Labour Studies at Brock University With organizing efforts underway at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and many more employers, unions and the labour movement are having a moment. Unions are fighting for higher wages and benefits for workers as workplaces try to return to normal after COVID-19 and sky high inflation makes for a higher cost of living. With a tight job market, workers should have some leverage but as economic signs point toward things like a recession, the actions of the unions and the labour movement could become even more important for workers.<...