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The future of work belongs to workers who organize · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  As companies search for new ways to cut labor costs and maximize
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  efficiency, workers are increasingly arriving at the same conclusion:
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, July 15th.
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  if they want a voice in the future of work, they'll have to organize for it.
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  Workers across vastly different industries are reaching the same conclusion: If
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  the future of work is being rewritten, they intend to have a hand in writing it
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  That's from the Labor Force
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  podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  In today's labor history on this date in twenty-twenty, writers for
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  Lovestruck, a mobile app that publishes visual romance novels, went on strike
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  against owner Voltage Entertainment USA for better wages and conditions.
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  Three weeks later, the company and the workers' union, Code, an arm of the CWA,
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  announced a settlement that included a meaningful pay raise for every single
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  writer and other workplace gains.
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  You can discover these stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Thomas Lee, who said, "They say that we're
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  essential, but they are not treating us as essential. I think we just
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  need a little bit more love here."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union Plus, a
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  nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in nineteen eighty-six.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.