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The GM strike marches on
Sep 20, 2019

The GM strike marches on

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Plus: Why grad students might lose their ability to unionize, and what items will be exempt from tariffs. 

Segments From this episode

From an idled GM plant to a UAW picket line

Sep 20, 2019
The No. 1 issue on this assembly line worker's strike agenda? End GM's use of temporary workers.
Members of the United Auto Workers Union picket outside the General Motors assembly plant on Sept. 16 in Wentzville, Missouri.
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images

When corporate outings become work

Sep 20, 2019
Are they just another opportunity for performance review?
A skiier in New Zealand.
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Are graduate students also employees?

Sep 20, 2019
A proposed rule by the National Labor Relation Board says no, although those students often do perform core university functions.
Yale students walk through the New Haven, Connecticut, campus in 2018.
Yana Paskova/Getty Images

Music from the episode

Juice Lizzo
Dear To Me Electric Guest
Sister Owls Monster Rally
Pass The Peas The J.B.'s
Relief in Believing Jon Ososki
Midas Era Lord Finesse
Darling Real Estate
J-Boy Phoenix

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer
Maria Hollenhorst Producer II
Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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