Listen to the audio version of the conversation between labor journalists Lauren Gurley and Nick Niedzwiadek and Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris as they discuss some of the biggest stories impacting workers, worker power, collective action, and unions. Their conversation covers news about protests and strikes involving employers like Alaska Airlines and Anheuser Busch, the latest corporate assault against the National Labor Relations Board, the California Fast Food Council and the SEIU's sectoral bargaining strategy, and much more.
Lauren Kaori Gurley is the labor reporter for The Washington Post, where she covers unions, the labor movement, and the economic forces that shape workers’ lives in the United States. She previously covered labor and tech for Vice’s Motherboard.
Nick Niedzwiadek is a labor reporter for POLITICO, where he covers developments at the Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the NLRB, as well as broader labor-related developments in Congress and the economy. He has previously written for the Times Union and the Wall Street Journal.