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[Podcast] Power At Work Blogcast #1 - A Discussion About the National Freight Rail Labor Dispute

Published on December 7, 2022

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This Power at Work blogcast will take you behind the headlines to explore why a Democratic-controlled Congress this week imposed an agreement on the freight railroads and the rail unions and effectively prohibited the unions from striking for a better deal.  Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris was joined by two expert commentators: Jonah Furman, a reporter for Labor Notes; and Sharon Block, a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director of the Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program, and a former senior Biden White House official.

Full video of this discussion is available here.

Listen on Spotify here.

Listen on anchor.fm at https://anchor.fm/poweratwork

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