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On this episode, host Laura Flanders presents excerpts from a recent CUNY SLU event, “Lessons from 100 Years of Black Labor Activism,” that featured labor scholars and activists in discussion about the unsung history of black labor organizing.

On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders takes a look back at the historic 2005 New York City transit strike on its 20th anniversary, with strike leader and former TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, and Bill Herbert, Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. The three discuss the strike’s impact and legacy and the state of collective bargaining for public sector workers in New York City today.

On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders convenes a panel of political reporters to discuss the 2025 mayoral election and what the future may hold for the incoming Mamdani administration.

On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders is joined by Henry Love, Vice President of Public Policy and Strategy at Win, and Angela Wyse, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, to talk about a largely unknown part of the homelessness crisis: people who are employed but still unable to afford a place to live.

On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders speaks to food advocate Liz Accles and NYS Assembly Member Khlaeel Anderson about the ongoing crisis of food access in New York, and the bold measures being taken to address it.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to filmmakers Pam Sporn and Tami Gold, and film festival director Andrew Tilson about the current state of pro-worker films in an increasingly hostile political climate.

On part two of this City Works special, host Laura Flanders speaks to labor leaders and activists at “Labor & The Crisis of Democracy,” the international conference held in May at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

On part one of a special episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders visits the recent conference at CUNY SLU and speaks to labor leaders from around the country about the urgent threat of authoritarianism in America, and their fight to stop it.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Murad Awawdeh of the NYIC and Seth Goodman Park of the Asylum Support Clinic about the surge in attempted deportations and the work that is being done to help empower those being targeted.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to guests Roland Rexha and Captain Joseph Ahlstrom about the problems in the maritime industry that led to the tragic Baltimore bridge crash, as well as the potential to revitalize U.S. shipping.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Barbara Edmonds of DC37 and Gabriel Pedreira of AFGE, to talk about the onslaught of attacks on public sector unions and what may be yet to come from the Trump administration.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Professors John Mollenkopf from the CUNY Graduate Center and Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA to examine why many low-income voters shifted to the Republican Party in the last election cycle.

On this episode of City Works, Laura Flanders speaks to Assistant Professors Susannah Glickman and Jason Resnikoff about the facts and fictions surrounding A.I. in the workplace.

On this hour-long episode of City Works, Laura speaks to the political directors of three unions to discuss what’s at stake for workers in the 2024 presidential election, and post-electoral strategies to keep organized labor on the offense.

On this special episode of City Works, Laura takes us through the last year of conversations with organizers from the UAW, the WGAE, and the PSC, as well as local labor advocates in NY, to explore the resurgence of labor activity around the country.