What does it mean to be a union member in these dark times?
Making ends meet in today's economy is difficult enough, but with so many societal crises affecting working people's lives on and off the shop floor—from mass layoffs to untenable costs of living, fro...
20 Nov 202558min
'We're done': Starbucks workers launch indefinite national strike
Four years after the first Starbucks store in the US unionized in 2021, workers across the country are still facing rampant union busting and still fighting for a first contract with the coffee giant....
13 Nov 202553min
Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: 'There's so many cops everywhere'
Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months. While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration's top-down attacks and scramble to adjust...
6 Nov 202557min
Life after genocide: A Gazan's message to the world about the ceasefire
In September, before the current ceasefire deal was announced, we spoke with two Palestinians in Gaza—Mohamed Abu Tawila (a former English teacher) and his nephew Abdul Rahman (a would-be college stud...
1 Nov 202517min
Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world
In this special crossover edition of Working People and The Marc Steiner Show, hosts Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner examine how the "artificial intelligence" (AI) boom is shaping the economy and...
29 Okt 202550min
This government shutdown is not like the others: Furloughed federal workers explain
The federal government shutdown is now in its fourth week. Over 700,000 federal employees have been furloughed, with nearly as many continuing to work without pay, yet there are still no signs that an...
22 Okt 202551min
Will Texas State University fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist's doctored video?
"In Texas, a socialist professor is now in the fight of his life against MAGA's New McCarthyism," scholar and author Bill V. Mullen writes in Jacobin. "Tom Alter, a labor historian and tenured profess...
13 Okt 20251h 5min
Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt
In a stunning and massive development, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is terminating parts of the Israeli military's access to proprietary technology that it was using to conduct mass surv...
8 Okt 202541min
