The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 7 December 2021
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On this week's Indy News Hour: —Caitlin Liss os the Student Workers or Columbia gives us a live update on increasingly high stakes labor struggle at Columbia University, the nation’s largest active strike of 3,000 students workers against the leaders of a university with a $14.4 billion endowment. The University is threatening to fire them from their jobs if they don’t end their five-week strike by Friday. —President of the New York Postal Workers Union Jonathan Smith talks about the union effort to get the postal service back on track. Biden still hasn't replaced Trump-appointed Postmaster Louis DeJoy, who is implementing measures that aren’t good for customers or workers, like understaffing and raising prices while giving American people less service. —Evan George, editor of Bostopia News podcast talks about what's afoot in Boston — moves toward free mass transit, a Green New Deal and rent control — with new mayor Michelle Wu in charge. This stands in contrast to NYC where our incoming new mayor is obsessed with more policing and cryptocurrency and to this drift nationally in the Democratic Party of insisting that nothing can or should change very much.
