Labor Safety, Project 2025, & the Far Right's Plot Against Workers: What You Need to Know -
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What risks do working people face this Labor Day? Workers continue to die on the job and struggle to protect worker safety, but the dangers for labor go beyond bad bosses. On the federal level, the far Right's Project 2025 playbook has plans to gut unions, fire federal workers and limit the power of agencies like the National Labor Relations Board. In this special for Labor Day, Laura Flanders is joined by co-host Maximillian Alvarez, of The Real News Network and James Goodwin, Policy Director at the Center for Progressive Reform. The episode also includes a report from the School of Labor and Urban Studies at the City University in New York on the rise of construction worker deaths in New York City; and an excerpt of "'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy", a report from The Real News Networks' Marc Steiner on the Texas effort to overturn workers' rights to mandatory worker water breaks. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on people as policy, and the late union organizer and author Jane McAlevey. "You do not need to be in a union to act like one, even in the most exploitative industries with the most dangerous working conditions. When workers know their rights and band together to exercise them, they can accomplish incredible things and drastically improve their lives." - Maximillian Alvarez "The disparities between me and my bosses are going to be made even bigger. My coworkers who may not look like me, who may be queer or people of color are going to be fearful to speak out because they don't have recognized civil rights anymore . . . That's the dynamic that Project 2025 is trying to set up . . ." - James Goodwin Guests: James Goodwin: Policy Director, Center for Progressive Reform Maximillian Alvarez (Co-host): Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Livin

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 122

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