No such thing as 'unskilled work': Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' 25 years later
In her 2001 masterwork Nickel and Dimed, the late Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage. After working as ...
19 Aug 46min
Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: Vermont healthcare workers and patients face historic crisis
Frontline healthcare workers and the patients they serve are facing a major crisis at the University of Vermont Health network—the state's leading healthcare provider. "In June, UVM Health eliminated ...
13 Aug 27min
Oil giant BP locks out workers at its last unionized refinery in US
For the last five months, oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has locked 800 workers out of their jobs at a crude oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The facility, located on the southwestern shore of Lake...
10 Aug 50min
Railroad jobs have "gotten worse" since Biden and Congress blocked workers from striking
In 2022, the United States nearly experienced its first national railroad strike in decades, until then-President Joe Biden, along with Democrats and Republicans in Congress, stepped in to block a str...
5 Aug 1h
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
When workers at the historic Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper hit the picket line in October of 2022, they had no idea that they would be on strike for over three years—or that the strike would end w...
30 Jul 36min
Data centers are not a "red state" or "blue state" problem; they're a working-class problem
In so-called "red states" and "blue states" around the US, from rural areas to urban centers, the explosion of new data center projects is impacting residents in poor, working-class, and middle-class ...
15 Jul 1h 15min
Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next?
10 years before the catastrophic train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the deadliest rail disasters in North American history took place in the Canadian town of Lac-Mé...
6 Jul 1h 12min
Toxic Avengers: America's poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die
From the explosion of AI data centers to the increasing number of toxic spills, explosions, and industrial disasters happening across the country, corporations and the government are turning the USA i...
1 Jul 1h 8min
