After two years of striking, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers aren't ready to give up
We're coming up on a pretty mind-blowing anniversary in the news labor world–Two years ago, in October 2022, after the newspaper unilaterally cut off insurance benefits to production workers and newsr...
18 Okt 202459min
Look for the Helpers: Organizing Relief Aid in Asheville, NC, After "Apocalyptic" Hurricane Helene (w/ Byron Ballard & Lori Freshwater)
Over the past two weeks, people around the country have watched in horror as our neighbors and fellow workers have been battered by the successive disasters of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. "...
14 Okt 202427min
Cornell's Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity Protests Could Force Grad Student-Worker to Leave US (w/ Jawuanna McAllister & Jenna Marvin)
The student encampment movement last school year turned institutions of higher education into flashpoints of struggle over Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, US support for it, and the right t...
3 Okt 202438min
Microsoft AI Data Center Comes for Drought-Battered Mexican Town's Water (w/ Diana Baptista)
As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of poor and working people around the world are suffering from lack of regular (or any) access to clean water, but the dawn of "AI" is about to make the pro...
3 Okt 202446min
Alec Plant
Two years ago, workers from several different Trader Joe's grocery stores joined the wave of unionization efforts spreading across the country. Workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, made history in 2022 b...
23 Sep 202458min
When Work Inspires Art: Labor Poet George Fish
While Max was inside the Labor Notes conference this past April, attending panels and sharing space with intelligent, hard working organizers, Mel was wandering the conference grounds outside, meeting...
19 Sep 202430min
Seven unions demand end to US military aid to Israel (w/ George Waksmunski & Brandon Mancilla)
The death toll in Gaza continues to climb, with conservative estimates putting the numbers of dead around 40,000, but a recent report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimates the actual dea...
28 Aug 202444min
300 Episodes of 'Working People'! Announcements, reflections, & what comes next...
In 2024, Working People officially crossed the 300 episode mark! Since we published our first episode back in 2018, the show has grown in ways we never could have imagined, and the world itself has ch...
12 Aug 202455min
