BONUS! Understanding Unions

In this episode, Sarah chats with Zoë West to better understand what a union is and how unionizing would impact the yoga industry. Zoë West is a researcher, educator and oral historian whose work centers on labor and migration. Her current research projects focus on alternative labor organizing models, precarity, and sexual harassment in the workplace. She teaches courses on labor, immigration, and oral history at Columbia University and the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College. As a founding member of Rhiza Collective, Zoë works with organizations to develop frameworks for implementing collaborative research, leadership development, narrative and healing work, and political education. She edited and compiled the oral history collection Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime (McSweeney’s, 2011; NDSP Books, 2016). Zoë has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.Want to learn more about the unionization movement?Follow @unionize_yoga on Instagram or learn more about their work at linktr.ee/unionizeyoga. Share your own yoga stories today! Reach out to Sarah via any of the following links:instagram.com/tbmpodcastfacebook.com/[email protected]