The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 7 December 2021

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 5:15 p.m.

b"On this week's Indy News Hour:\\n\\n\\u2014Caitlin Liss os the Student Workers or Columbia gives us a live update on increasingly high stakes labor struggle at Columbia University, the nation\\u2019s largest active strike of 3,000 students workers against the leaders of a university with a $14.4 billion endowment. The University is threatening to fire them from their jobs if they don\\u2019t end their five-week strike by Friday.\\n\\n\\u2014President of the New York Postal Workers Union Jonathan Smith talks about the union effort to get the postal service back on track. Biden still hasn't replaced Trump-appointed Postmaster Louis DeJoy, who is implementing measures that aren\\u2019t good for customers or workers, like understaffing and raising prices while giving American people less service.\\n\\n\\u2014Evan George, editor of Bostopia News podcast talks about what's afoot in Boston \\u2014 moves toward free mass transit, a Green New Deal and rent control \\u2014 with new mayor Michelle Wu in charge. This stands in contrast to NYC where our incoming new mayor is obsessed with more policing and cryptocurrency and to this drift nationally in the Democratic Party of insisting that nothing can or should change very much."