Behind the News: Railroad Union Struggle w/ Ryan Grim

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Doug interviews Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of a recent article on railroad unions, about the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry. Then we hear from economist Sanjay Reddy, who discusses the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henrywood.
0:36.0	The usual double barreled feature today.
0:38.0	We'll hear from the journalist Ryan Grimm
0:40.0	and the fight between railroad workers
0:42.0	and their massively exploitative employers.
0:44.0	A fight that was ended, at least for now,
0:46.0	with a settlement imposed by Washington.
0:48.0	And then the economist Sanjay Reddy will analyze
0:51.0	another labor dispute.
0:52.0	This one at the New School of Manhattan.
0:54.0	A conversation that serves as a portal
0:56.0	into a discussion of the political economy of universities today.
0:59.0	First, railroads.
1:01.0	Congress recently imposed a settlement
1:03.0	on a dispute between railroad workers and their bosses.
1:06.0	The settlement is sometimes described as breaking a strike,
1:09.0	but as our first guest, Ryan Grimm,
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