A Look at the Worker Shortage in the Food Service Industry
We hear from several restaurant owners managing these issues. We hear from Gregory León, owner and chef at Amilinda in Milwaukee, Marcos Carbajal, co-owner of Carnitas Uruapan, which has two locations in Chicago, and Susannah Koteen, Proprietor of Lido in Harlem.The Takeaway also looks at how Covid exposed the systemic inequalities in the restaurant industry with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley and author of "Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning."
University of Pittsburgh Faculty Ally with Steelworkers to Unionize After Years-Long Campaign
We spoke with Paul E. Johnson, assistant professor of communication at University of Pittsburgh and member of the union organizing committee to find out more about how this unionization came to be.
Trick or Treat: Creepy Movies to Get You Ready for Halloween
Kristen Meinzer is a culture critic and author of "How To Be Fine" and Rafer Guzman is a film critic for Newsday. Together Kristen and Rafer are the co-hosts of the podcast, Movie Therapy, and they joined The Takeaway to give their picks for the best Halloween movies you might not have seen. See the segment page for Kristen's picks!
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