Labor

When Scabs Are a Danger to Public Health

United Metro Energy is risking an environmental catastrophe in Brooklyn as billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis stalls union negotiations.

Halsey Hazzard

Solidarity and Togetherness During These Bleak Times

A special conversation with close friends of the Working People podcast.

Maximillian Alvarez

No, the Strike Wave Is Not About Vaccine Mandates

The recent spate of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements.

Jeff Schuhrke

The Rank-and-File Fight for Direct Democracy at UAW

A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.

Maximillian Alvarez

Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.

Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.

Shaun Richman

She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back

Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.

Luis Feliz Leon

How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.

Alice Herman

Kellogg's Workers Are Striking Against a "Two-Tiered" System of Workplace Inequality

A conversation with Dan Osborn, who has worked at the Omaha, Nebraska, plant for 18 years.

Maximillian Alvarez

Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else?

Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor.

Hamilton Nolan

Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag

A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.

Maximillian Alvarez