Hot Labor Summer: UAW Aims to Set Four Day Work Week Precedent

Published: Sept. 8, 2023, 4 p.m.

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Many of the current\\xa0union strikes are leveraging their workplace power to get what they want in their contracts, including a possible shift to a four day work week for themselves\\xa0\\u2014 and potentially everyone else.\\xa0On today's show:\\xa0Jane McAlevey,\\xa0organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley\\u2019s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, columnist at\\xa0The Nation\\xa0and co-author of\\xa0Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), talks about labor news, including the latest on the WGA and SAG AFTRA strikes and the UAW negotiations, and the overall state of organized labor today.\\xa0

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