Technical difficulties & labor success with Warren Leight

The Jacobin Sports Show

After Matthew spends the first minute of the episode unknowingly on mute, a colorful & comprehensive discussion of the WGA's recent strike success with longtime Law & Order: SVU/Law & Order: Criminal Intent showrunner and Tony Award-winning playwright Warren Leight. As a longtime writer/director/producer and one of the WGA's leading union members, Leight gives an insider's view both into the workers' conditions that led to the labor action & how the union not only achieved victory for its members, but is part of a growing solidarity across all kinds of different unions. We talked about why that happened, the unique role of social media in this strike and the union's insistence on an agreement regarding artificial intelligence. We also talk about Warren's life with & love for the Knicks and Mets.