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 death toll could be 186,000 or even higher—that’s roughly 8% of Gaza’s population. And with each passing day, the humanitarian crises unfolding in Gaza and […]
Tag: Working People
Posted inEconomy, Economy and Inequality, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Real News Network, Working People
Thousands of Keck-USC healthcare workers fight for fair contract
Since the start of the pandemic (and really, before that), frontline health care workers have been rightfully lauded for the tireless work that they have done to keep the health care system from cratering in this country. This is no easy task, as we have seen the devastation that the pandemic has wrought among our […]
Posted inEconomy, Economy and Inequality, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Real News Network, Working People
Celebrating 300 episodes of ‘Working People’
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 changed in radical, hopeful, terrifying ways, the labor movement has undergone incredible changes, and we’ve done our best to document that change […]
Posted inEconomy and Inequality, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Real News Network, Working People
Why is America’s largest union locking out its staff over a contract dispute?
Today we have an urgent and important conversation with members of the NEA Staff Organization, the union of staffers at the National Education Association, who have been locked out of their workplace by NEA management for the past four weeks. The NEA, representing over 3 million members, is the largest union in the country. Staffers […]
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From East Palestine to Pike County: Ohio’s ‘sacrifice zone’ communities gather in Toledo
From East Palestine, Ohio, to South Baltimore and beyond, we’ve been connecting you with residents living in the toxic wastelands left by private and government-run industry—ordinary working people who have been thrust into extraordinary fights for their lives. In the latest installment of our ongoing Sacrificed series, we go to Toledo, Ohio, a city that, in 2014, […]
Posted inEconomy and Inequality, Israel, labor, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Real News Network, Working People
Labor militancy can’t be stopped: Palestine and Labor Notes 2024
Two months ago, from April 17-21, workers and labor organizers of all stripes convened in Chicago for the bi-annual Labor Notes conference, which overlapped with the Railroad Workers United convention. As the registration website rightly noted, “Labor Notes Conferences are the biggest gatherings of grassroots labor activists, union reformers, and all-around troublemakers out there.” This […]
Posted inEconomy and Inequality, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Real News Network, Working People
We asked 8 different Teamsters what they thought of Sean O’Brien’s speech—their responses may surprise you
On Monday, July 15, on Day 1 of the Republican National Convention, Sean O’Brien, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, became the first Teamsters president ever to address the RNC. Invited by former president Trump, who is now officially the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election, O’Brien’s speech was no ordinary RNC […]
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Baltimore nurses at largest Catholic health network in US fight on for first contract
On the morning of Thursday, June 20, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally outside the hospital to raise awareness of their efforts to secure a first contract and to show management that they’re not backing down from their core demands for safe staffing and an operational model that puts […]
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In Brazil, the climate crisis is already turning working people into climate refugees
“Southern Brazil is facing its worst climate tragedy ever,” Latin-America-based journalist Mike Fox wrote from Brazil for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in early May. “Unprecedented floods have impacted 1.4 million people and forced more than 160,000 people from their homes… The images are shocking. Downtown Porto Alegre, the capital of the […]
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My childhood in Cuba under the US blockade
For the past six years on this show, we’ve talked to working people from across the United States, from virtually every walk of life, about their lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles. But today, we’re going to talk about what it’s like to live and work in a country that has been designated a political enemy […]