Putting the movement in Movement

Broadcast on March 24, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock

Movement Crystal City is the first major gym in the country to unionize; organizer Gus Mason joins us to explain why…then, Sunday was the first day of Spring and strikes have been popping up all over; Johnnie Kallas from Cornell's Labor Tracker Project updates us on their latest findings…And finally, if you were glued to this week’s Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, here’s a case no one brought up: Holmes v. Atlanta, when the Supreme Court ruled against Atlanta's "separate but equal" public golf courses. We find out what the game of golf has to tell us about race in America today, with professor Lane Demas, author of Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf.
Plus labor news headlines: Tentative agreement reached between Howard University and their faculty; Virginia, the first state to set Covid workplace rules, drops them; Seattle Starbucks workers vote yes for unionization; Grocery workers in California are voting to authorize a strike; Many workers are looking to switch jobs; 52 million workers make less than $15 an hour.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and TBD.

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