(The full Richard Wolff interview will be available this week at https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow)
00:00 Intro
2:48 What is the One Fair Wage coalition?
8:27 Restaurant industry propaganda to look out for
12:07 What Kathy Hochul doesn’t understand about tipping
16:23 Saru’s Golden Globes stand against sexual harassment
19:29 We are witnessing unprecedented worker’s revolt
21:14 Fighting child labor in the U.S.
24:38 How did Susan get involved in the One Fair Wage campaign
26:13 Why was Susan arrested?
30:34 How Jenny got involved in One Fair Wage
31:33 The importance of getting the One Fair Wage message out
32:15 How the pandemic worsened day to day costs and labor laws
34:18 Jenny’s own experience with harassment at work
35:43 The history of restaurant labor laws
37:50 Why the restaurant industry holds so much power
41:25 The demands of One Fair Wage
42:16 Shame on NY lawmakers for not protecting restaurant workers
43:49 Is the debt ceiling a real issue or political theater?
53:42 What Janet Yellen gets wrong about the debt ceiling
54:42 Why Biden shouldn’t compromise on the debt ceiling
58:03
Susan Sarandon, Saru Jayaraman & Jenny Almanzar talk about the One Fair Wage campaign they’re fighting for. Economist Richard Wolff talks about the debt ceiling.
Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Saru is also the author of One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America (The New Press, November 2021).
https://onefairwage.site/
https://onefairwage.site/newyork
Jenny Almanzar is a longtime NYC restaurant worker and leader in both OFW and Our Revolution.
Susan Sarandon is an Academy-Award-winning actor and activist. She was arrested protesting for One Fair Wage.
Richard Wolff is an economist, the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at UMass Amherst , visiting professor at The New School and the founder of Democracy at Work.
https://www.rdwolff.com/
https://www.democracyatwork.info/
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