Two years ago, october 20, nint, there was something like 80 to 85 thousand workers on strike simultaneously. And yet it wasn't making the national news as sort of a unified moment. I think part of what we're talking about is an labor struggles line up with social struggles, political struggles, a narrative. You had literally teachers in arizona saying, hey, west virginia just did this. We're going to do it now.
Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi.
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