Justin Whittaker
Working People is excited to announce that, along with our ongoing partnership with the amazing In These Times magazine, we are now partnered with The Real News Network in Baltimore! In this episode...
27 Tammi 20211h 38min
1001 days (w/ Suat Karlikaya & Burcu Ayan)
Production workers at Cargill Turkey were unfairly dismissed on April 17, 2018, while trying to unionize. Listeners will probably recognize the name Cargill: based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Cargill is...
20 Tammi 20211h 15min
Mini-cast: #SafeReturnOrNoReturn (w/ Paula Ladin & Mariana Ruiz)
This week, the first wave of children, teachers, and clinicians in the Chicago Public Schools system were required to appear at their schools for the first time in nearly a year. While COVID-19 cases ...
15 Tammi 202145min
2020: A Year to Remember & Forget
Well, that was ... quite a year. From the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election to mass protests against police violence and worker actions around the country, it's hard to even remember all...
13 Tammi 20211h 19min
It's Time for Workers to Take Back Power
In this special episode, we talk with three representatives of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades—Jim Williams (General Vice President), Kellie Morgan (Political Director & Communit...
2 Tammi 202155min
Zack Pattin & Brian Skiffington, Part II
This is Part II of our special two-part episode with Tacoma longshore workers Zack Pattin and Brian "Skiff" Skiffington. Zack and Skiff are both members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Un...
23 Joulu 20201h 24min
Zack Pattin & Brian Skiffington, Part I
We've got a Working People first! In this special two-part episode, we sit down to chat with not one but two longshore workers: Zack Pattin and Brian Skiffington from Tacoma, WA. Zack and Brian are bo...
16 Joulu 20201h 22min
Erek Slater
We chat with Erek Slater, a bus operator for the Chicago Transit Authority, where he's been working for the past 15 years. Erek is a family man, a father, and a three-term elected shop steward and exe...
9 Joulu 20201h 31min
