CUNY TV's City Works

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City Works is a show that highlights the vast array of workers across New York City. Hosted by Laura Flanders and produced in collaboration with the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, the show spotlights the occupations and projects of the working people of our city, with inquiry carried out by one of the nation’s most outstanding universities.

Episode Date
Organizing the Resistance: Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders
Sep 07, 2026
Reflections on the Historic NYC Nurse Strike of 2026
Jul 06, 2026
Home Health Aides Demand Relief, and AI in Higher Ed
Jun 01, 2026
Working Their Way Back: New Hope for Unions in Mamdani's NYC
May 04, 2026
Labor's Uphill Battle: Can Unions Lead the Charge Again?
Apr 06, 2026
License to Sell: New Street Vendor Laws Fix a Broken System
Mar 04, 2026
Civil Rights at Work: A Century of Black Labor Activism
Feb 02, 2026
When the Subways Stopped: The 2005 NYC Transit Strike
Jan 05, 2026
A Reporter Roundtable: Mamdani's Historic Victory
Dec 01, 2025
Working While Homeless: When Full-time Pay Isn't Enough
Nov 03, 2025
Food Justice: The Fight for Access and Fairness
Oct 06, 2025
Labor in Film: Telling Workers’ Stories
Sep 16, 2025
Special: Labor & The Crisis of Democracy (Part 2)
Jul 03, 2025
Special: Labor & The Crisis of Democracy (Part 1)
Jun 11, 2025
The Fight of Their Lives: Undocumented Workers Under Siege
May 13, 2025
Labor on the Seas: Maritime Work in the 21st Century
Apr 10, 2025
Organized Labor on Alert: Are Public Sector Unions in Danger
Apr 10, 2025
Party Politics: Where Have the Workers Gone?
Apr 07, 2025
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Jan 06, 2025
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Labor
Oct 03, 2024
Special: A Year of Strikes and Organizing
Jul 01, 2024
Danger on the Job
Jun 03, 2024
New York's Labor Movement: Unions Are Winning Again
May 06, 2024
Pride at Work
Apr 01, 2024
Adjunct Faculty: The Growing Crisis in Higher Ed
Mar 04, 2024
Artificial Intelligence: The Promise and the Peril
Feb 05, 2024
Out With the Old: Reimagining the Way People Work and Earn
Jan 01, 2024
Making History: The 2023 UAW Strike
Dec 04, 2023
Children at Work
Nov 06, 2023
Working on the Railroad: The Fight for Railworkers' Rights
Oct 02, 2023
Hollywood on Strike
Sep 04, 2023
Special: Rebuilding Labor’s Power for the 21st Century
Aug 07, 2023
New Protections for Workers and “How Workers Win" Conference
Jun 12, 2023
A New Frontier for Labor: Video Game Workers Get Organized
May 01, 2023
The Threat to NYC Public Housing and the Fight to Keep It Public
Apr 03, 2023
A Life in Activism and Advocacy: Journalist Juan González
Feb 06, 2023
Worker Cooperatives: Building a Better Workplace
Jan 02, 2023
2022 Midterm Election Aftermath: A Reporter Roundtable
Dec 06, 2022
Gender Equality in the Workplace: The Struggle Continues
Nov 08, 2022
Organizing at Amazon and in the American Theatre
Oct 04, 2022
Los Deliveristas: NYC App Delivery Workers
Sep 06, 2022
The Future We Need: Organizing in the 21st Century
Jun 07, 2022
A People's Guide to NYC & Wall Street's Grip on Pensions
May 03, 2022
Re-Imagining Elder Care in America
Apr 05, 2022
Examining Racism's Economic and Health Impacts In America
Mar 08, 2022
Solving the NYC Yellow Cab Debt Crisis
Feb 08, 2022
Organized Labor and the Global Climate Crisis
Jan 04, 2022
Challenging Monopoly and Bezosism
Dec 07, 2021
A Tale of Two Cities Revisited: NYC's Mayoral Transition
Nov 02, 2021
State of the Unions & Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years Later
Oct 05, 2021
Disability and Work
Sep 07, 2021
Transgender Workforce Activism: Pride is Political
Jun 08, 2021
Worker Organizing in 2021 America
May 04, 2021
COVID Recovery and Essential Workers: What's Next?
Apr 06, 2021
The Biden Administration and the Working Class
Mar 02, 2021
New York's Housing Crisis: Tenant Organizing in a Pandemic
Feb 02, 2021
Reporter's Roundtable
Dec 08, 2020
Pandemic Economics: The Impact of COVID-19
Nov 03, 2020
Immigrant Workers: Contesting the Narrative
Oct 06, 2020
BLM and Police Unions
Sep 07, 2020
AOC - Pramila Jayapal - COVID-19 Frontline Workers
Jun 02, 2020
Domestic Workers and the Pandemic
May 06, 2020
Activism in the Gaming Industry
Apr 07, 2020
Nurses on the Front Lines of Healthcare Delivery
Mar 03, 2020
Teacher's Strike with Stacy Davis Gates; Randi Weingarten
Feb 11, 2020
Beyond Resistance
Jan 07, 2020
Street Vendors; UAW Strike; Vinny Alvarez
Dec 03, 2019
Wage Theft; State of the Unions; and more
Nov 05, 2019
City Works Premiere Episode
Oct 08, 2019