This is Jackhamen Radio and I'm Susie Weisman.

Today we look at the ongoing UAW strike against GM, the first strike

since 2007, and we also do a deeper look at the Green New Deal in the wake of Worldwide Climate Strike Actions.

UC SB Labor Historian Nelson Lictonstein joins us with his take on the United

Auto Workers Strike that has 50,000 General Motors

auto workers on picket lines.

Nelson shares his views of the strike, the union leadership, and the impact

he thinks this strike can have on politics and work life, that is, reviving and reshaping industries and workplaces and the political order.

We then talk to Daniel Aldana Cohen.

He directs the sociospatial Climate Collaborative of University of Pennsylvania

and is the director of Jacobin series on the Green New Deal.

And we're talking to him about the Green New Deal and how it intersects with the housing

crisis, racism, inequality, energy, and food systems, not to mention the political and socioeconomic

order while seeking to decarbonize the economy.

Plus it's reviving the left. It's not pie in the sky and we get Daniel Aldana Cohen's

take on why. All this when Jacobin Radio returns in just a moment.

Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie We're going to talk about the auto strike in this

segment. The strike of 49,000 General Motors workers which began on Monday September 16th is the first time

that there's been a GM strike since 2007 and that was a year before the government

bailed out the auto industry in the global

financial crisis and since that time GM has increased its profits making 35 billion in

the past three years many of the plants are slated to close and

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