This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

Today we're going to look at the prospects and obstacles

for labor under the Biden administration which is beginning with some

promising labor-friendly measures, not a moment too soon given the extremely

difficult working conditions workers continue to face now made even tougher with the pandemic.

We begin with Labor Historian John Logan, who brings us the story of the organizing initiative of

Amazon workers in Alabama taking on the notoriously anti-union company which is the

second largest in the United States in the midst of a pandemic.

The implications for this struggle are nothing less than Titanic and will get the story.

And we then turn to law professor Vina DuBall, who's written widely on the conditions of precarious platform

workers, particularly in the ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft.

Vina DuBall has cautioned us that the passage of Prop 22 in California has embolded these companies

to go national and she cautions that Prop 22 poses extreme danger to workers everywhere and will exacerbate enormously the

inequality we're already experiencing.

Venus strikes a note of hope for the new administration so far that notes that

organizing will be the key. We'll get her take when our program returns in just a moment. This is a new administration.

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman. Well, we have a new administration, one that is beginning with some promising labor-friendly measures and not a moment too soon,

given the extremely difficult working conditions workers continue to face now made even tougher with the pandemic.

Precarious working conditions usually refer to the

instability of gig or platform work. But now with the pandemic we have widespread

unemployment and the threat of unsafe working conditions for

frontline or essential workers where the hazards of work now include not

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