CUNY TV's City Works

Join us for a discussion with two leading LGBTQ activists at a pivotal time for the transgender workforce. Features Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, and Amber Hollibaugh, activist, filmmaker, and author.

On this episode: worker wins and losses. While the union drive at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama failed, undocumented workers gained a huge victory elsewhere. Joining Laura Flanders are Jessica Garcia from the RWDSU, and Angeles Solis.

Essential workers are the life blood of New York City, and have been most vulnerable at the forefront of work during the pandemic. What does the future hold for them? Laura Flanders talks to an MTA bus driver, a teacher, and a public health expert.

Laura Flanders chats with Dorian Warren Felicia Wong to discuss the Biden administration's connection to the working class. Plus, highlights from the SLU public forum entitled "The First 100 Days: Policy Priorities for Labor and Social Justice Movements."

Laura Flanders sits down with Cea Weaver, a tenant advocate, and Winsome Pendergrass, a domestic worker, both who have fought for tenant's rights and against evictions, to discuss tenant organizing in this fraught time.

Laura Flanders discusses the Joe Biden electoral win for President, and what it means for labor. Roundtable includes Harold Meyerson of the American Spectator, freelance journalist Michelle Chen, Juan Manuel Benitez of NY1, and Jeet Heer of The Nation.

Laura Flanders talks with Professor Janet Gornick of the CUNY Graduate Center about economics and poverty in a time of COVID-19; and Minnie Roh reports on businesses and workers during this challenging time, and how they have endured.

Laura Flanders speaks with Ruth Milkman about her new book, "Immigrant Labor and the New Precaroit." And later, she talks to Cristina Jimenez of United We Dream and Kazi Fauzia of DRUM NYC about changing the immigration narrative in an election year.

Can police unions work in any meaningful way with labor and BLM movements? Laura Flanders talks with Terry Melvin, Executive Director of the Racial Justice Task Force of the AFL-CIO, and David Unger, SLU labor educator.

Highlights from a conference on immigrant and migrant workers featuring Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal; and stories from two COVID-19 frontline workers, Kelly Cabrera from Jacobi Medical Center, and Dr. Frank Proscia.

How are domestic workers faring in this pandemic? Laura Flanders speaks with Ai-Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Crystal Crawford, a domestic worker in Atlanta, about the challenges these unofficial essential workers face.

Laura Flanders talks with Wes McEnany, of the Campaign to Organize Digital Workers, and Kevin Agwaze, of Game Workers United UK, about the stressful working conditions gamers and coders face, and what is being done to change it.

Host Laura Flanders talks with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, President of NYSNA and an E.R. nurse at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, and Pat Kane, RN, Executive Director of NYSNA, about what healthcare means on the front lines.

Randi Weingarten; Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates on the strikes of 2019 and what comes next.

On this month's program: Highlights from the recent "Beyond Resistance: A Progressive Immigration Agenda for 2020" held at the School of Labor and Urban Studies. And, a follow-up interview with Deepak Bhargava.

On this month’s City Works: Street vendors and the issues they face; Vincent Alvarez, President, New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; Beverley Brakeman of the UAW; and subway opera.

On this month's City Works: A look at the pervasive problem of wage theft; bartender and aspiring actress Christian Cordova; Ruth Milkman on the State of the Unions; and subway dancer Isyrel Jules Tales.

On the first episode of City Works: How gig workers make ends meet; what nail salon workers are doing to improve conditions; author Steve Greenhouse on labor history; a blacksmith in Central Park; and the Robert Anderson Jazz Band.