Checks and Balance: Labour’s love lost - a podcast by The Economist

Wages are going up and employees are walking out -some to strike, some never to come back. American workers have more leverage than before the pandemic. How permanent is this shift in power?

The Economist’sSimon Rabinovitchtakes us to a picket line in Pennsylvania and we go back to an earlier walk out in Hollywood. Betsey Stevenson, one of President Obama’s economics advisors, tells us how long this could last. 

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Jon Fasman.

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