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Working-Class Wins—Plus, Hot Rod Racing

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson reports on recent union victories, and Rachel Kushner talks about nostalgia dragsters.

Jon Wiener

December 18, 2024

Several airport and hotel workers begin a three-day hunger strike outside of Los Angeles City Hall, on Monday, December 9, 2024.(Hans Gutknecht / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

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Working Class Wins, plus Hot Rod Racing | Start Making Sense
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Hotel and restaurant workers in Los Angeles won a $30 minimum wage last week, Disneyland workers are getting $233 million in back pay, and Wisconsin public employees regained collective bargaining rights. Harold Meyerson reports on some victories in the class struggle in America.

Also: a special feature: novelist Rachel Kushner reports on the world of Nostalgia Drag Racing, where people make machines – with their hands. One of them is her teenage son.

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Hotel and restaurant workers in Los Angeles won a $30 minimum wage last week; Disneyland workers are going to get $233 million in back pay; and Wisconsin public employees regained collective bargaining rights. Harold Meyerson reports on some victories in the class struggle in America.Also: a special feature: Novelist Rachel Kushner reports on the world of Nostalgia Drag Racing, where people make machines—with their hands. One of them is her teenage son.

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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.

Working Class Wins, plus Hot Rod Racing | Start Making Sense
byThe Nation Magazine

Hotel and restaurant workers in Los Angeles won a $30 minimum wage last week, Disneyland workers are getting $233 million in back pay, and Wisconsin public employees regained collective bargaining rights. Harold Meyerson reports on some victories in the class struggle in America.

Also: a special feature: novelist Rachel Kushner reports on the world of Nostalgia Drag Racing, where people make machines – with their hands. One of them is her teenage son.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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