Labor

Every year, tens of millions of people descend on Philadelphia to walk the streets that helped launch a nation. Philadelphia is a city of “firsts” and “oldests” from the cobblestone streets of Elfreth’s Alley, to the first lending library and first public hospital.  The region drew a record-breaking 46 million...

For decades, the H-1B visa program has functioned as a pipeline for highly skilled workers to join the U.S. labor force. By design, it allows companies to hire employees in “specialty occupations” and has been particularly popular in the technology sector. Indian nationals have been the main beneficiaries—comprising 71% of...

Ju-Hyun Park, a member of Nodutdol and the Web Editor at BreakThrough News, joins the show to break down why ICE stormed a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. Nearly 500 workers were arrested, including American citizens and Korean visa holders in the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history. Park...

Red Onion State Prison: where six men set themselves on fire as a desperate form of protest. Since 1998, watchdog groups have documented shotgun attacks, electroshock torture, pervasive racism, and naked force-feedings in the Virginia prison — but families of the incarcerated men report little has changed. Now activists are...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office due to the reign of terror the administration has perpetrated. Trump has also sued the Maryland federal judiciary for making him follow proper deportation procedures. Professor Richard Wolff & Brian...

Dr. Ashok Kumar, Associate Professor at Birkbeck University, joins to discuss Jeremy Corbyn’s launch of a new left-wing party in the UK that’s poised to transform politics. As anger grows at the Labour Party over the genocide in Gaza and its failure to address the cost of living crisis, Corbyn...

Chris Smalls, Founder of the Amazon Labor Union, joins the show after being beaten, arrested, and detained by Israeli forces for attempting to bring aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza. As the only Black person onboard the aid flotilla and the only one assaulted by Israel, Smalls describes his experience...

Millions of Americans are on the brink of defaulting on student loans. But it’s not just student loans. It’s also credit card and auto loan loans. 1 in 4 Americans now uses loans to buy groceries. In fact, US household debt is at the highest level ever recorded. BT’s Kei...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the latest in Trump’s brutal mass deportation campaign. BT went to South Florida to speak with residents, environmental activists, and immigrant families who say the entire project is corrupt, the conditions are brutal, and it could change the Everglades forever.

Charlton County, Georgia doesn’t have a working hospital, but it’s about to be home to the largest ICE detention center in the country. The facility is run by GEO Group, the multi-billion dollar prison profiteer the U.S. government pays to cage migrants. BT followed the organizers demanding the Folkston ICE...