Ep 170 - Exploitation Should Be a Crime (Patreon)

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As  with any week in the labor movement, this week we've got a mixture of  good news and less good news. We start on the happier end, with students  at Cornell forcing Starbucks off campus after its retaliation against  workers. The first massage studio in Florida has unionized, following  success by the UFCW in Colorado. Workers at Jacksonville State  University are forming a wall to wall union to fight for better than  their current $8.25/hr. In less good news, we heard more this week from  workers at Tesla and Amazon about the horrific working conditions at  both and the way Amazon weaponizes their company "doctors" against  workers. Wage theft remains rampant in the US, and a new report shows  how much impunity bosses in Texas have. Finally, we discuss a recent LA  Times report about the impacts of climate change on the workers who put  food on our tables every day.

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