Why Do Railroad Workers Keep Dying on the Job? (w/ Nick Wurst, Matt Weaver, Mark Burrows, & Ross Grooters)
"Last Wednesday, a fellow rail worker was gravely injured on the job and lost his life," a Feb 6 email from Railroad Workers United reads. "Our brother Chris Wilson, who worked for Norfolk Southern, w...
1 Mar 202456min
"Shut It Down!": On the Ground at Johns Hopkins Grad Union's Practice Picket
One year ago, graduate student-workers at Johns Hopkins University overwhelmingly voted to unionize under the banner of Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE), which is affiliated with United Electr...
21 Feb 202436min
Baltimore's Co-Ops Show There's Another Way to Work (at the Baltimore Museum of Industry)
Baltimore has become what many consider to be ground zero in the emerging "solidarity economy" and the formation of worker-owned, cooperatively run businesses. There's something important going on he...
14 Feb 20241h 12min
Homegrown Sandwich Shop Workers Hit 100 Days on Strike (w/ Sydney Lankford & Perry)
Workers at Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches in the Seattle area voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UNITE HERE LOCAL 8 in late 2022, and they have been fighting for a first contract ever since. In f...
7 Feb 202448min
East Palestine—1 Year After the Derailment
Feb. 3, 2024, marks the one-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that changed life forever for the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The derailment of 3...
31 Jan 20241h 15min
After Waging the Largest Healthcare Worker Strike in US History, Kaiser Workers Win Big (w/ Meg Niemi & Audrey Cardenas)
From October 4-6 of this year, the US experienced the largest healthcare worker strike in our history, when over 75,000 workers with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions went on a three-day strik...
23 Des 202336min
Brazil's Radical Plan to Fight Slave-Like Working Conditions (w/ Marcos, John, & Vitor Filgueiras)
Brazil's Radical Plan to Fight Slave-Like Working Conditions (w/ Marcos, John, & Vitor Filgueiras) In this special international episode, we get the chance to talk to folks in Brazil about t...
11 Des 20231h 37min
Chris & Jessica Albright
It's been nearly 10 months since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train and the subsequent "controlled release" and burnoff of toxic vinyl chloride changed life forever for the residents o...
30 Nov 20231h 14min
