If you haven’t subscribed to our “State of the Unions” podcast yet, you’ll want to stop what you’re doing and go listen.

Every other Wednesday, podcast co-hosts Tim Schlittner and Julie Greene sit down with someone connected to workers—whether a union member, community partner, politician, columnist, policy specialist or labor leader—to tackle the ideas and issues facing the labor movement. This week I was lucky enough to be their guest, and you can check out our conversation here.

We got the chance to discuss work in the tech sector, the future of work and women’s strength in the labor movement. We also explored how, in the #MeToo era, a union contract can be one of the most important answers to workplace sexual harassment. We talked about innovation and change in the movement, too—as I said in the episode:

I don’t necessarily believe all the scare tactics that we’re hearing through reports saying we’re going to lose the 75 million jobs in 12 years, but with automation and robotics and artificial intelligence, there’s no doubt there’s going to be massive change going forward and probably faster than previous industrial revolutions. So I guess the question is: What is the labor movement going to do to keep up with that change, and how are we going to be modern and flexible and nimble…enough to represent the needs of workers as they transition to the jobs of the future?

Listen to the whole discussion here. Better yet, subscribe to and rate and review “State of the Unions” wherever you find
your podcasts.

In Solidarity,

Liz
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Liz Shuler
Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO