It Could Happen Here Weekly 244
Summary
Host Amir Wong interviews Lake and Andy from the Gender Affirming Care Workers Alliance about their unionization efforts at RealU Electrolysis. They discuss discovering a parallel organizing campaign in Vancouver and navigating a hostile workplace characterized by predatory debt agreements and inadequate training. The workers describe their direct action strategy, including walkouts to protest bounced paychecks, highlighting the severe economic precarity faced by trans employees.
Topics discussed
HIV prevention and PrEP awareness
Everyone Watches Women's Sports promo
Lakewood clinic union campaign and debt peonage
Organizing efforts and management hostility
Involuntary recognition and bounced paychecks
Strike action and patient resources
Ads for Autodesk and Addyi
Western Sahara conflict and US negotiations
Women's sports highlights and Naomi Osaka
Organized retail crime and surveillance tactics
Women's sports: Kelsey Finler's rowing feat
CORCA bill, ICE data sharing, and immigration
Women's sports recap and promo
Spokane wildfires and indigenous fire management
15-minute city conspiracy and Kalshi lawsuit
Michigan primaries: El Saeed vs Stevens
Ramaswamy and conservative politics
Mesquite factory delays and Iran tensions
Disaster betting, Fed policy, and tariffs
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