September 1, 2020

EP. 177 — Are Unions A Good Bargain? with Professor Rebecca Givan

In the lead-up to Labor Day, Getting Curious is working it! We’re re-releasing an episode from 2018 with Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, all about trade unions. She and Jonathan discuss what unions are, how they operate, and why collective bargaining can be such a powerful tool.

Follow Professor Givan on Twitter @rkgwork. She’s also the co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection Strike for the Common Good, which follows teacher walkouts across the US in the last few years.

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Transcript

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness & Rebecca Givan JVN [00:00:01] Welcome to Getting Curious. I’m Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. In advance of Labor Day, we’re re-releasing an episode from 2018 with Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, where I ask her: Are Unions A Good Bargain? This is Jonathan Van Ness. I’m very excited this week because we’re hearing so much right now about trade unions. I feel like over my life I’ve heard a lot about, like, unions. I think Jimmy Hoffa, I think, I think mob. I think, I don’t, I don’t know what a union is like. I’m a millennial, so I brought an amazing professor. You’re full of knowledge. Rebecca Givan. Right? REBECCA GIVAN [00:00:48] Yeah. JVN [00:00:48] I nailed it. REBECCA GIVAN [00:00:49] You nailed it. JVN [

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