Unions!

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dara Lind talks with professor Gabriel Winant of the University of Chicago about the new Bureau of Labor Statistics report that showed a topline decline in union membership despite increasing labor-oriented momentum. And later, journalist Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) joins to talk about the importance of teachers’ unions in the labor movement and in Democratic politics. References: The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, Gabriel Winant Rachel Cohen’s recent article about school closures and Democrats The recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report on union membership numbers Hosts: Dara Lind (@dlind), immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeks.
0:43.8	I'm your host, Daryl Linn.
0:45.9	At the beginning of February, a union vote is set to reopen
0:49.2	at the Amazon warehouse in Bessamer, Alabama,
0:52.0	which garnered national attention during its first union vote.
0:55.1	Both for the tactics that Amazon Management used to try to suppress unionization,
0:59.9	which is what resulted in the revote and now set to take place,
1:02.8	and for the idea that Amazon was part of a new frontier of workplaces and industries
1:08.9	that were beginning to see new growth in unionization,
1:12.0	from fast food franchises and Starbucks to the Columbia graduate students
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