Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.

The stunning success of the West Virginia teachers

Wildcat Strike winning a 5% raise not only for themselves but all the states

public employees could suggest we're on the cusp of a new era of worker

militancy. This comes at the same time as the Supreme Court is considering the

Janus case, the decisions expected in June that will weaken public sector unions.

So the victory in West Virginia, a state full of public school teachers with no legal right to collective bargaining,

at a time of shrinking union membership nationwide

is all the more amazing. Teachers in Oklahoma with the lowest pay in the country in a

state with extremely weak union representation are considering going the West Virginia way.

And while unions are ever weaker, there's more public support for them, even with the people

who voted for Trump.

On today's podcast, Labor Journalist Rebecca Cohen and Sean

Richmond, a former union organizer and author of Labor's Bill of Rights, who has

an article in the Washington Post on the unintended consequences of the Janus case,

join us to unravel the unintended consequences and talk about the possibilities for labor.

And later, Dean of Cal Berkeley's law school

and constitutional scholar Erwin Chimurinsky

joins us to untangle the Trump administration's

lawsuit against the state of California over three state laws

the California legislature has passed to ensure that the state isn't complicit with the Trump administration's

use of ice raids, detention, and deportation that the state sees as unconstitutional and

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