On this season of our show, Voices on the World of Work,

we've heard from some of the leading experts on everything from platform workers to labour shortages,

from burnout to the future of industry in Europe.

To close this season, we went a little further afield with Caleb Leido,

who recently served as Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the National

Labor Relations Board in the United States.

More recently, Kayla has been visiting the ETI on a Fulbright scholarship to build relationships

between the American and European labor movements with a focus on communications.

In our chat, she offered some insights from her experience at the Federal Agency,

into the recent particularly volatile chapter in US politics,

and into the country's industrial relations system more broadly.

I'm your host, Bethany Staunton, and you're listening to ETIP podcast, Voices on the World of Work.

Kayla, welcome to the show today. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much for having me.

So you're based in Washington, but you've spent the last few months in Europe on a Fulbright scholarship,

getting to know the world of labor here, or perhaps I should say

worlds of labor. Tell us some of your impressions, and if there are any points of comparison

with labor relations landscape in the U.S. that have really struck you. Yeah, so I've been here

in Brussels since January, so about four months now, and I'll be here for a little bit longer. But I've been

based at ETUI since then. I was really fortunate to get this Fulbright grant to be able to

conduct a professional project in labor communications. And so I've sort of been based at

ETUI in Brussels, but traveling around a bit, trying to meet as many trade union folks as possible and specifically labor communications folks as possible.

And ETUI has just such a wealth of knowledge. I'm just so fortunate to be here.

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