Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work.

Civics 101 host Hannah McCarthy joins Julia to talk about labor strikes , what protections workers have and the changing relationship between employers and strikers.

Transcript

So, Hannah, what is a strike and what does it take to go on one?

So very simply, Julia, a strike is when workers [or] employees refuse to work until they get what they are asking for. So they're withholding their labor—the thing that they were hired to do and are getting paid to do—until the thing they want from their employers is granted to them.

Reasons for a strike include, getting your employer to recognize your union, unsafe working

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