Economic Update: Surging US Labor Activism

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[S13 E01] Surging US Labor Activism

Thank you for joining us for Season 13 of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff! In this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses explosive labor militancy across 2022 in US and UK, Wells Fargo bank again fined for illegal practices on 16 million bank customers, US-Russia economic warfare undercuts European economies whose response will likely shape Ukraine War's results. In the second half, Wolff interviews journalist Bob Hennelly on the rising US labor movement.

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About our Guest: Bob Hennelly is an award winning independent journalist focusing on labor, public health, the economy and the environment. He is a regular contributor to Salon, InsiderNJ, City&State, the Village Voice  and Work-Bites. He’s also a veteran broadcast journalist who has filed stories for NPR, WNYC and WBGO, the NPR jazz station in Newark, NJ. He’s worked for CBS MoneyWatch and CBS’s 60 Minutes. He hosts a weekly radio program on WBAI that focuses entirely on the issues of working people. His work has appeared in the NY Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and dozens of other news outlets. Bob is the author of his new book, just released and published by Democracy at Work: "Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?" available at www.democracyatwork.info/books

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Twitter: @Stucknation
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS:
1. Record strikes, unionization across 2022: https://www.axios.com/2022/12/....19/worker-strikes-su
2. UK: https://www.ft.com/content/013....c8814-5642-44b3-9801
3. Wells Fargo: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20..../investing/wells-far
4. Poland and Germany put in requests for Russian oil: https://www.reuters.com/busine....ss/energy/russias-tr