The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Uprising of the 20,000
As we've mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our own labor history provides us with a bluepr...
27 Mar 202556min
Privatize USPS? Mail carriers are fighting for a better idea
This week, we're taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long contract negotiation with the US Postal Service...
24 Mar 202553min
Show us the ropes: How Touchstone Climbing Gym workers unionized five locations
This week, we're staying in Southern California, where the workers of Touchstone Climbing Gym in Los Angeles have been negotiating their first contract with their employer. Touchstone Climbing, a regi...
15 Mar 202551min
'It's Elon versus everyone': A dire warning from fired federal workers (w/ Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister, & Will Munger)
In this urgent episode of Working People, we focus on the Trump-Musk administration's all-out assault on federal workers and its takeover and reordering of our entire system of government. "At least 2...
5 Mar 202555min
Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind (w/ Ashley McCollom, Hannah Loyd, & Kristina Baehr)
We kick off the new season of Working People with another crucial installment of our ongoing series where we speak with the people living, working, and fighting for justice in America's "sacrifice zon...
26 Feb 202557min
Democracy dies, first, in the workplace (w/ Hamilton Nolan & Sara Nelson)
"I did not start out as a writer interested in organized labor," Hamilton Nolan writes in The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor; "I started out as a writer interested i...
9 Jan 20251h 18min
Sick Georgia residents have been abandoned after toxic BioLab fire (w/ Hannah Loyd, Christina O'Connor, & Jeramie Julian)
"In late September," Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, "a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and prompting national news coverage. The sm...
14 Des 20241h 17min
What working people's struggles to survive the Great Depression can teach us today (w/ Dana Frank)
"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed," historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? "By 1933 a third of al...
6 Des 20241h 16min
