Kim Kelly, Author and Labor Activist | Johnnie Kallas, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations

A freelance labor journalist and author, Kim Kelly, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to talk about her life as a freelance journalist and how she found herself covering the labor movement. Kelly also discussed her book Fight Like Hell and explained how she shares those stories with a younger generation.

Johnnie Kallas, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his recent move from the Cornell University ILR School to Illinois and his continued work on the ILR Labor Action Tracker. Kallas discussed the recently released 2023 edition of the tracker and some of the trends that were seen from the data.