The Flight Attendant Who Wants You to Go on Strike | 2025 in Review
What Next
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the people in those conversations to see how things have – or haven’t – changed. This episode is from April.
The Trump administration’s actions on immigration and firing the federal workforce have drawn condemnation from all sorts of unions—from building trades to graduate students. What happens when labor speaks as one?
Guest: Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL–CIO.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, Isabel Angell, and Rob Gunther.
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| 0:29.9 | Hey everyone, it's Mary. All this week, we are listening back to some of our favorite shows from the year. |
| 0:35.8 | And I've got to say, I've realized we have talked to |
| 0:38.3 | some of the people who defined this year. I don't just mean politicians, senators, representatives, |
| 0:44.8 | although we've talked to a few of those. I'm talking about a professor forced to flee the country |
| 0:50.1 | for writing about Antifa, a 20-something left to raise their younger siblings after their mom got deported, federal workers who were fired or furloughed or muzzled. |
| 1:00.9 | In 2025, the media has been dominated by some very loud voices. |
| 1:05.8 | We talk to the people, those voices, want to shut up. |
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