Episode Details

Ana Jakopič is a lawyer, organizer, and trade union leader in Slovenia. We talk to Ana about the different kinds of workers she organizes with on a daily basis, the struggles working people across Slovenia are facing, and how connected/disconnected those struggles currently feel to the strikes taking place in Europe and beyond. But we also talk about Ana's life and her winding path into the labor movement; we talk about growing up in the post-Yugoslavian world, and about the impacts the Russo-Ukrainian War is having on Slovenians' lives today.

Additional links/info below...

• Ana's Twitter page
• Maximillian Alvarez, Breaking Points, "'We Need ESCALATION': More STRIKES Coming In UK And France"
• The Real News Network, Workers of the World (series)
• AFP, "Thousands of Nurses Strike over Wages and Poor Working Conditions in Slovenia"
• People's Health Dispatch, "Health Workers in Slovenia Go on Strike"

Permanent links below...

• Working People Patreon page
• Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!
• Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• In These Times