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Ten years ago, I was working 12-hour days as a warehouse temp in Southern California while my family, like millions of others, struggled to stay afloat in the wake of the Great Recession. Eventually, we lost everything, including the house I grew up in. It was in the years that followed, when hope seemed irrevocably lost and help from above seemed impossibly absent, that I realized the life-saving importance of everyday workers coming together, sharing our stories, showing our scars, and reminding one another that we are not alone. Since then, from starting the podcast Working People—where I interview workers about their lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles—to working as Associate Editor at the Chronicle Review and now as Editor-in-Chief at The Real News Network, I have dedicated my life to lifting up the voices and honoring the humanity of our fellow workers.
 
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United Auto Workers members attend a solidarity rally as the UAW strikes the Big Three auto makers on September 15, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

UAW strike update: More auto plants to join ‘stand-up’ strike

by Maximillian Alvarez September 21, 2023September 21, 2023

As the first week of the auto workers strike against the Big Three ends, the UAW is preparing to expand its strike to more plants to build leverage at the bargaining table.

Ford Motor Company's electric F-150 Lightning on the production line at their Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on September 8, 2022. Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Posted inWorking People

UAW workers explain why they’re ready to strike

by Maximillian Alvarez September 13, 2023September 14, 2023
Marissa Carpio joins SAG-AFTRA members as they maintain picket lines in front of Netflix on August 24, 2023 in New York City. Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

After months of striking, media workers aren’t backing down

by Maximillian Alvarez September 8, 2023September 8, 2023
Employees of HarperCollins Publisher participate in a one-day strike outside the publishing houses offices in Manhattan on July 20, 2022 in New York City. The strikers, who work in a variety of departments at the company, have been bargaining for a union contract since December 2021. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

There’s no such thing as a ‘union boss’—what labor reporters get wrong

by Maximillian Alvarez August 31, 2023August 31, 2023
Hundreds of members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' public transport union are shouting slogans during a General Strike of the National Education Office at Yeouido, main finance and investment banking district on November 25, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Posted inWorking People

South Korea’s war on unions has geopolitical implications

by Maximillian Alvarez August 30, 2023September 8, 2023
Congolese human rights activist Nita Evele (L) listens while Nii Akuetteh, founding Executive Director of George Soros' West Africa foundation, speaks during an event at the National Press Club July 31, 2014 in Washington, DC. Photo BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International

The 21st Century will be decided in Africa

by Maximillian Alvarez August 23, 2023September 1, 2023
President E. Gordon Gee of the West Virginia Mountaineers looks on during the game against the Iowa State Cyclones at the WVU Coliseum on January 10, 2015 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images
Posted inWorking People

This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

by Maximillian Alvarez August 23, 2023August 28, 2023
Split-screen image: (Left) Photo of George Jackson published on August 24, 1971, three days after Jackson was shot and killed by a prison guard at San Quentin Prison. Photo by Bettman via Getty Images. (Right) Mourners give the Black Panther salute as the casket of George Jackson is carried from St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, California on August 28, 1971. Photo by Bettman via Getty Images
Posted inRattling the Bars

George Jackson’s unfinished revolution

by Mansa Musa and Maximillian Alvarez August 21, 2023August 25, 2023
Photo of Slovenian lawyer and trade union leader Ana Jakopič holding union flags in support of striking miners at the Valenje mine in March, 2014. Photo courtesy of Ana Jakopič.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International

30 years after Yugoslavian socialism, Slovenian unions fight for the workers capitalism has forgotten

by Maximillian Alvarez August 16, 2023August 22, 2023
A woman in a coat and hijab stands on a balcony, behind her is the city of Minneapolis skyline.
Posted inWorking People

How immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota took on Amazon and won

by Maximillian Alvarez August 9, 2023September 8, 2023

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