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PalestinePodcast

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

New owners gut Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the wake of retaliatory firings, ex-Gazette-Post seek to keep Pittsburgh journalism alive.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

A Conversation With Graduate Student Workers on Strike at Harvard

More than 4,000 UAW members are on strike at Harvard University.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

Baristas, Billionaires, and (Alec) Baldwin

The Starbucks Baristas are Still Fighting for a Contract.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Citizens Reckon with Industrial Plant Explosion in Rural Louisiana

After an industrial plant explosion from chemical dumping, the government is slow to take action.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Camping Out a Chemical Giant: Diane Wilson Persists in Hunger Strike for Clean Waters

The fourth-generation fisherwoman from Texas’ Gulf Coast said she won’t let Dow continue to pollute the community’s bays and waterways.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

Community Persists for USPS Letter Carriers While Conditions Worsen

USPS mail carriers strive to hold onto community relationships as a contract battle looms for the struggling service.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

The Teamsters Could Be Fearless Again

A rank-and-file-led slate of candidates is challenging O’Brien’s MAGA-happy leadership of one of the country’s biggest unions.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

How NYC Nurses Won After Their Longest Strike in the City’s History

A conversation with a lead organizer and neonatal nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital during the pivotal weeks of the union’s historic 41-day strike.

Maximillian Alvarez

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“We Don’t Want To Be Studied Like Guinea Pigs. We Want To Be Helped.”

Three years after the East Palestine derailment, residents are still suffering.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

More Than 31,000 Health Care Workers in California, Hawaii Continue To Strike

A panel of union members call on the health care giant to return to the bargaining table in “good-faith” for contracts.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

“ICE Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti

In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

Workers Win As Longest Running Strike In The US Ends

After a lengthy legal process, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals decisively sided with striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Don’t Forget the People of East Palestine

Journalists Maximillian Alvarez and Steve Mellon urge a new approach to journalism as they accept an Izzy award for their work documenting East Palestine.

Maximillian Alvarez

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In Conyers and East Palestine, Residents Face Lingering Effects of Chemical Disasters

From Hawai‘i to Michigan to Ohio, the residents of America’s “sacrifice zones” are comparing notes, and fighting for justice together.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Inside the Fight To Unionize California’s Climbing Gyms

The Touchstone Climbing community unionized five gyms, but now the challenge is demanding a fair contract.

Mel Buer

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Privatize USPS? Mail Carriers Have a Better Idea

After battling for a fair contract, USPS workers face the threat of privatization, which they warn will harm all Americans.

Mel Buer

Podcast

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Uprising of the 20,000

Building worker power has always been an uphill battle. Revisiting history can guide us forward. An interview with Erik Loomis.

Mel Buer

Podcast

Trump Escalates War on Federal Unions

The administration is stripping federal unions of collective bargaining rights, hurting workers and the American people.

Maximillian Alvarez

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“Kill the Cuts”: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

What are workers saying at the front lines of the Kill the Cuts rally in Washington, D.C.?

Maximillian Alvarez

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In an Attempt to Cause Fear and Demobilize, the Trump Administration Increases Threats on Higher Education

Educators and organizers from the AAUP how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling higher education as we know it.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Union members talk state of the movement and hopes for the future at MULP

Participants at the Minnesota Union Leadership Program chat with Working People on the ground as they refine their skills for the future of the labor movement.

Maximillian Alvarez

PodcastPolitics

Veterans Rally Against Trump Cuts

Trump is a draft dodger who spent millions on a military parade for his birthday while slashing veteran healthcare. Veterans are mad about it.

Maximillian Alvarez