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Is Wall Street At War With Workers?
Manage episode 422049934 series 2312968
Mike talks with Les Leopold, co-founder and executive director of the Labor Institute, a nonprofit organization that develops and conducts education and policy programs for unions, environmental organizations, community groups, and immigrant worker centers on workplace health and safety, the environment, economics, and movement building. He’s also the author of multiple books. His latest is Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It, which they talk about in this episode.
Topics Mike & Les Discuss Include:
- if Wall Street is really at war with workers
- how to understand ultra-low unemployment rates
- technology, globalization, and US workers
- the economic and psychological toll of mass layoffs
- the decline of public sector unions in the US
- how government policy can make things better for workers
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860 episodes
Manage episode 422049934 series 2312968
Mike talks with Les Leopold, co-founder and executive director of the Labor Institute, a nonprofit organization that develops and conducts education and policy programs for unions, environmental organizations, community groups, and immigrant worker centers on workplace health and safety, the environment, economics, and movement building. He’s also the author of multiple books. His latest is Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It, which they talk about in this episode.
Topics Mike & Les Discuss Include:
- if Wall Street is really at war with workers
- how to understand ultra-low unemployment rates
- technology, globalization, and US workers
- the economic and psychological toll of mass layoffs
- the decline of public sector unions in the US
- how government policy can make things better for workers
The Politics Guys on Facebook | X
Check out Mike’s other podcast - Sustainable Planet.
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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