The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 Feb. '24
In our first segment, we speak with workers at Trader Joe\u2019s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also be joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe's are alleging in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional.\n\nThen, we hear an interview by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton with Bennett Fischer of the United Federation of Teachers. At the United Federation of Teachers, one of the city\u2019s largest municipal unions, UFT Retiree Advocate, a group of retiree activists, announced on Friday that they will contest an internal union election this spring for leadership of the retiree chapter which has more than 60,000 members. \n\nAnd in our final segment, we speak with Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at CUNY\u2019s Hunter College about an ongoing film series showing movies about Palestine. She\u2019ll also update us about an upcoming Jewish Voice for Peace protest for Palestine.