Belabored Podcast #32: Black Friday

Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Subscribe and rate on iTunes here. Check out the full Belabored archive here. Tweet at @dissentmag with #belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Belabored is produced by Natasha Lewis. This week on Belabored, Michelle and Sarah bring you some good news (and, of course, some less good news), including suggestions from listeners, and look forward to the Black Friday actions at Walmart next week. Journalist and author Liza Featherstone joins the show to talk about Walmart’s corporate culture, why that’s made the company hard to organize in the past, and how it might be changing. They share their thoughts on Seattle’s new socialist city council member and revisit the idea of solidarity as a value for the left. Links for those reading along at home:   Michelle: Qatar’s World Cup Spectacle Brought to You by Slavery Sarah: Why port truckers are striking:12-hour shifts, noxious fumes, and $12.90 paychecks Minimum wage of $11.50 proposed for the District States Moving Beyond U.S. Minimum Wage as Congress Stalls Machinists Defeat Boeing Proposal, Boo Union Brass Who Pushed It Ruling Doubles Paycheck for 1375 Employees at High-Grossing Queens Slot Parlor Liza Featherstone’s book Selling Women Short: The Landmark for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart  Liza Featherstone: Walmart Workers Walk Out Liza Featherstone: Is Walmart Losing its Bipartisan Luster? Liza Featherstone: ‘Dukes v. Wal-Mart’ and the Limits of Legal Change Liza Featherstone in Dissent Josh Eidelson: Walmart Faces Warehouse Horror Allegations and Federal Labor Board Complaint OUR Walmart Website for Associates Requesting Black Friday Actions Demos, A Higher Wage is Possible What We Wish We’d Written: Michelle: Mariya Strauss, The Nation: Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die Sarah: Kurt Newman, Dissent: Letter from Santa Barbara: Reviving the Sympathy Strike The post Belabored Podcast #32: Black Friday appeared first on Dissent Magazine.