Economic Update: Strikes Amid Reviving US Labor Movement

[S12 E01] Strikes Amid Reviving US Labor Movement

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This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Huawei vs Cisco, Europe's exploding energy prices falsely blamed on Covid, Robert Kuttner announces he has become a socialist, polls show big drop in religious affiliation and praying especially among Christians from 2007 to 2021 as secularism accelerates. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by Mike Elk of Payday Report to discuss the growing wave of US strikes since the pandemic began.

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About our guest: Mike Elk is a protege of the late Bill Greider, Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter who covered the labor movement & the drug war in Brasil and spent years covering union organizing in the South for The Guardian. In 2016, he used his $70,000 NLRB settlement from being fired in the union drive at Politico to start the crowd-funded Payday Report. The son of United Electrical Workers (UE) Director of Organization Gene Elk, he lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS
* Huawei vs Cisco: https://techblog.comsoc.org/2020/06/06/delloro-telecom-equipment-market-declined-4-yoy-statista-49-3b-revenues-in-2020/
* Europe in energy crisis: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-turns-russia-more-coal-190000162.html?guccounter=1
* Robert Kuttner: https://prospect.org/politics/capitalism-vs-liberty/
* Religious affiliation drop: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/15/us-religious-affiliation-study-results

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