In this episode of a “Work Place in Progress”, Gabrielle Dodd and Milton Cervantes take the listener into a journey through time, comparing the past and present working conditions of welders and demonstrating how Unions can, and do make a drastic difference in the workplace. Gaining access to an exclusive interview with a present day, un-unionized welder, who shares his personal experience, they learn more about the degrading working conditions that not only welders but many Blue collar workers have to endure in present day America. They compare these current conditions to those of unionized workers of welding and manufacturing companies from 1948 to 1949. Have blue collar working conditions truly improved, or have they remained the same, just with better hidden exploitation?

Cover Photo by ⁠Georgia Mashford⁠ on ⁠Unsplash⁠.