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“Patients should not be treated like commodities”: Baltimore Nurses Are Fighting for a Transformative First Contract

Understaffing leaves nurses pulled in multiple directions and unable to offer optimal care. These nurses are fighting to change that.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Flooding in Brazil Has Displaced More Than 600,000 People From Their Homes as States Slash Prevention Funding

“Underneath is this deep-seated trauma that will last for years and decades and sometimes lifetimes for people.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Liz Oliva Fernández on Life in Cuba Under U.S. Embargo

“I didn't know how the sanctions affected me or my friends.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

South Baltimore Residents Have Had Enough of Rail Giant Pollution

Curtis Bay residents rallied at the CSX rail terminal with a simple demand: “We have to remove CSX for the health of our communities.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

How Big Business Made a Sacrifice Zone out of South Baltimore

Longtime Baltimore residents on the fight for environmental justice and what it feels like to be "sacrificed" by industry.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Baltimore Longshoreman on the Key Bridge Collapse: “It’s not surprising that this ship lost power.”

Veteran longshoreman John Blom on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the slow recovery ahead for port workers.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

In Ohio's Cancer Cluster, Workers Fight for Justice—and Transparency

“They hired the healthiest workers because it takes us longer to get sick.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

East Palestine is a Labor Issue

“Norfolk Southern has not kept their promise to the whole community to make it right.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Organizers Call on Biden to Issue a Major Disaster Declaration for East Palestine

Over a year after the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, residents are struggling to access critical healthcare. A coalition of activists from across the country is urging the Biden administration to take action.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Uvalde Father Brett Cross Is Fighting so That No One Else Has to Bury Their Child

“At this point, it's not a matter of if it's going to happen to you, it’s a matter of when.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Rail Jobs Don't Have to Be Deadly

Railroad corporations are packing schedules and loosening workplace safety standards. Workers are paying for it with their lives.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

As Norfolk Southern Reports Billions in Earnings, East Palestine Residents Wait for Justice

One year after the Norfolk Southern derailment, families are still struggling to relocate, find work, and access medical care.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

How Kaiser Workers Won

Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked out on a three-day strike, marking the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Major Seattle Sandwich Chain Fired a Union Organizer, Sparking Backlash—and Change

Workers at Homegrown voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UNITE HERE in late 2022. They’ve been fighting for a contract ever since.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Can Worker Co-ops Bring an End to Crappy Jobs?

“Co-ops create greater wealth in their communities. People keep that money in their communities.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborIsrael & PalestineInterviewPodcast

The New York Supreme Court Just Blocked a Union From Voting on a Pro-Palestine Resolution

In a seemingly unprecedented move, the NY Supreme Court just granted a temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from even voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

UPS and Autoworkers Are Inspiring a Wave of Worker Militancy. Who’s Next?

The UAW reached tentative agreements with each of Detroit's Big Three automakers. Workers around the country are watching.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborIsrael & PalestineInterviewPodcast

"I Want American Workers to Be United to Make the Occupation Costly, to Make the Israeli Apartheid Costly."

Palestinian activist Issa Amro calls on U.S. workers to fight for for justice and an end to the occupation.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Striking Autoworkers Have Made Major Strides. They’re Not Done Yet.

Lisa Xu and Chris Budnick on the power of worker organizing—and the UAW’s newfound militance.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborInterviewPodcast

Mass Protest Hasn’t Won the Change We Need. What Comes Next?

Reporter Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and The Missing Revolution.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

The UAW Fight is an Exercise in Class Struggle Unionism

UAW President Shawn Fain has said that “corporate greed” is the enemy, and autoworkers are fighting back.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Government Shutdown Would Shutter the NLRB. That’s Bad News for Striking Workers.

A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

South Korea Declared War on Unions. Workers Are Fighting Back.

In the face of widespread repression, South Korean workers are rising up for fair pay and labor protections.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry

Stagnant pay and hazardous conditions have driven autoworkers at the Big Three to organize.

Maximillian Alvarez