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Sounds detected in missing sub search. Pushback to the Hunter Biden plea deal. A setback in the classroom for students. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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Hello from the Hill!
This week, we’re joined by Ligia Guallpa, executive director of Workers Justice Project (WJP), a group that organizes low-wage, immigrant workers in New York City, including the app-based delivery workers who call themselves Los Deliveristas Unidos. WJP and the Deliveristas just won the passage of a mandatory minimum wage, a huge improvement for e-bike and car delivery workers on GrubHub, Uber Eats, and other platforms. (13:30) Ligia details the unique dangers that spurred the emergence of the Deliveristas as COVID hit New York and (31:00) offers some lessons learned from going against these big-tech titans and their algorithms.
In this episode, we ask:
How substantial was the shift towards app-based gig work during COVID, and what did that mean for workers?
Is it necessary to focus on fighting worker misclassification?
How did delivery workers overcome the immense challenge of organizing in a disparate, deliberately siloed workforce?
For more, read:
* A 2021 piece in The Verge about the early days of organizing among Los Deliveristas Unidos
* Another horrific fire this week that may have been caused by improperly maintained e-bike batteries
* A report on the backlash that threatened to derail WJP’s minimum-wage fight
* News that the NLRB recently reverted to an Obama-era test that could make it easier for gig workers to organize
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Narendra Modi is cosying up to America, but not at the expense of valuable relationships with Russia and China. Our correspondent speaks with the country’s foreign minister who details its unique worldview. After losing its charismatic leader, what does the future hold for the Scottish National Party? And a change the supply of body parts in Britain.
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Matt Martin has always been a computer nerd, even way back in Elementary School, learning to use a Mac and learning Hypercard. In Middle School, he discovered the internet and programming in HTML - and he was hooked. That said, he didn't grow up around tech folks and eventually got into public policy and went to law school. After being a litigator for a while, he decided to ditch the law industry, move to the Bay Area and get into tech. Outside of tech, he is married with 2.5 year old twin girls. They live in downtown San Francisco, and they love to go on bike rides together.
Matt considers himself a productivity nerd, and is always looking for ways to improve his workflow. At a prior role, he was focusing on individual optimization to schedules. And what he realized, is that time is not an individual problem - but a team problem to be solved.
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Don't call them one-hit wonders. And don't you dare try to knock them down.
This week, Rob's covering the career of the British anaracho-punks Chumbawamba, including their massive hit "Tubthumping," which took over the world for a spell in 1997. Later, Rob's joined by journalist and critic Dorian Lynskey to try to contextualize the hard-to-contextualize band.
Preorder Rob's new book, 'Songs That Explain the '90s,' here:
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Guest: Dorian Lynskey
Producers: Kevin Pooler and Justin Sayles
Additional Production Support: Chloe Clark
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The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physical garments. And, alas, closet space is finite, cloth gets sun-bleached and eaten by moths, and Americans notoriously do not care about their fashion heritage. So this is why one woman decided to put a call out across the country and make a scrappy archive all by herself.
This story was reported by Enya Hennings. Pictures, details and more at articlesofinterest.substack.com
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