Start Making Sense: Low-Paid Workers Strike and Win in LA; Minor League Baseball Players Form a Union

<p>In Los Angeles last week, a three-day strike by 30,000 public school custodians, food service workers, bus drivers and teacher&#39;s aides ended with a 30% pay increase. Harold Meyerson, the editor-at-large of <em>The American Prospect, </em>joins the podcast to discuss.</p><p>Also: For a century, thousands of young baseball players have lived with low wages, overcrowded housing, and all-night rides in uncomfortable buses in order to play in baseball’s minor leagues, hoping to eventually make it to the majors. Now, their lives are changing because they organized a union. Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/minor-league-baseball-union-bill-fletcher/" rel="nofollow">have more on that story</a>.</p><p><em>Subscribe to </em>The Nation<em> to support all of our podcasts: </em><a href="https://thenation.com/podcastsubscribe" rel="nofollow"><em>thenation.com/podcastsubscribe</em></a><em>.</em> </p><br/><br/>Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a><br/><br/>Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>