Jane McAlevey is a veteran organizer, now a senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center. Her most recent book is A Collective Bargain.

Ken Jacobs is the Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center (@UCBLaborCenter). His latest report, co-authored with Ian Eve Perry and Jenifer MacGillvary is “The Public Cost of a Low Federal Minimum Wage”

Jane explains the door-knocking Democrats should do, why the left needs more than a Labor Secretary, and how to take lessons from union elections, since they’re models of voter suppression.

Interview with Laurel Lucia on “What Losing the Affordable Care Act Could Mean for Californians.”

New unemployment numbers are out – and they show over 2 million people have filed or applied for some type of assistance. Interview with Steven Pitts.