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Trump escalates the war on federal unions
Season 8 Episode 7
Last week, President Trump escalated his administration's war on the federal workforce and workers' rights when he signed an executive order to end c…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Uprising of the 20,000
Season 8 Episode 6
As we've mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping i…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Privatize USPS? Mail carriers are fighting for a better idea
Season 8 Episode 5
This week, we're taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-l…
11 months ago
Show us the ropes: How Touchstone Climbing Gym workers unionized five locations
Season 8 Episode 4
This week, we're staying in Southern California, where the workers of Touchstone Climbing Gym in Los Angeles have been negotiating their first contra…
11 months, 1 week ago
'It's Elon versus everyone': A dire warning from fired federal workers (w/ Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister, & Will Munger)
Season 8 Episode 2
In this urgent episode of Working People, we focus on the Trump-Musk administration's all-out assault on federal workers and its takeover and reorder…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind (w/ Ashley McCollom, Hannah Loyd, & Kristina Baehr)
Season 8 Episode 1
We kick off the new season of Working People with another crucial installment of our ongoing series where we speak with the people living, working, a…
1 year ago
Democracy dies, first, in the workplace (w/ Hamilton Nolan & Sara Nelson)
Season 7
"I did not start out as a writer interested in organized labor," Hamilton Nolan writes in The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Sou…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sick Georgia residents have been abandoned after toxic BioLab fire (w/ Hannah Loyd, Christina O'Connor, & Jeramie Julian)
Season 7
"In late September," Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, "a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for…
1 year, 2 months ago
What working people's struggles to survive the Great Depression can teach us today (w/ Dana Frank)
Season 7
"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed," historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Lear…
1 year, 2 months ago
Judy Gearhart and the Labor Link Podcast - What can a can of tuna teach us about International Worker Solidarity
Season 7
Longtime Working People listeners will be familiar with Max and Mel's extended work discussing the supply chain, the workers who keep that system run…
1 year, 2 months ago