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Cop City is Bad News for Working People

Kamau Franklin and Mariah Parker on the fight to stop Cop City in Atlanta.

Maximillian Alvarez

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UPS is Failing Women Workers. Can a Contract Change That?

Women at UPS face unique challenges on the job—and at their union halls.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

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Norfolk Southern Won't Clean Up Their Mess Unless We Make Them

“Even early on, I knew it would not be safe to go back home.”

Maximillian Alvarez

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Southern Workers Are Building a Movement to be Reckoned With

“The South got something to say, workers here have something to say.”

Maximillian Alvarez

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A Nationwide UPS Strike Could Be Weeks Away

“[A strike] could capture the imagination of people who want a union, but want to join something that they feel is fighting for them.”

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

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Writers Are More Powerful Than the Streaming Industry

“If we turn this career into a gig, into a hobby, the people who are going to be able to do it are the people who have generational wealth and privilege and are just doing this for fun.”

Maximillian Alvarez

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Working People Podcast: University of Michigan Tried to Stop a Strike. It Didn't Go How They Planned.

Unable to stop the strike through the courts, university administrators have resorted to calling campus police, docking pay, and pressuring faculty to report on strikers, organizers say.

Maximillian Alvarez

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The Upsurge Podcast: UPS Contract Negotiations Have Begun ... Sort Of.

While CEO Carol Tomé has insisted that the company and the union are "not far apart on the issues," some workers feel that their behavior at the bargaining table paints a different picture.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

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Rail Workers of the World, Unite!

Railroad workers and union reps from the US, UK, and France discuss the class struggle in their respective countries and how these struggles are connected internationally in this special episode of the ‘Working People’ podcast.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Where Do Railroad Workers Go from Here?

Four railroad workers discuss Congress’s handling of the rail contract dispute, and how Wall Street’s destruction of the freight rail system is only going to get worse for workers, shippers, and all of us.

Maximillian Alvarez