Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The... more
“In late September,” Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, “a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over... more
“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new... more
Longtime Working People listeners will be familiar with Max and Mel’s extended work discussing the supply chain, the workers who... more
On November 12, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally in front of the Marriott... more
Sacrifice zones are areas where people have been left to live in conditions that threaten life itself, from toxic industrial... more
Two years ago, the US was on the cusp of seeing its first national rail strike in decades. Then, President... more
Last year, we summoned all the Alvarez siblings from the ether to record our annual Halloween episode. Sadly, we were... more
On Monday, Oct 21, 2400 behavior health workers at Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California locations walked off the job in their... more
We’re coming up on a pretty mind-blowing anniversary in the news labor world–Two years ago, in October 2022, after the... more
Over the past two weeks, people around the country have watched in horror as our neighbors and fellow workers have... more