Working People (in partnership with In These Times and The Real News Network) is a podcast about working-class lives in the 21st century. In every episode, you’ll hear interviews with workers from all walks of life. We talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes, their dreams and struggles. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the world.
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Recent episodes
There’s no such thing as ‘unskilled work’: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Nickel and Dimed’ 25 years later
25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can’t ignore now.
Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: How corporate administrators mismanaged Vermont’s flagship health network into a historic crisis
Healthcare workers in Vermont’s flagship health network say they and their patients are paying the price for a historic crisis caused by decades of mismanagement by overpaid, corporate-style administrators.
Foreign oil giant BP locks out workers at its last unionized refinery in USA
“[British Petroleum] just made $5.7 billion in three months and they’re paying a bigger dividend. We’ve been here sacrificing our personal lives for 20 years and they are intentionally hurting us and our families. It’s shameful.”
Railroad jobs have ‘gotten worse’ since Biden and Congress blocked workers from striking
Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members.”
Data centers are not a ‘red state’ or ‘blue state’ problem; they’re a working-class problem
From Maryland to Texas, residents fighting data centers tell us the same thing: “It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It’s coming for all of us. And if we don’t all wake up and work together, we’re lost.”
‘It was the apocalypse’: Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next?
We speak with a panel of survivors of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in Canada—one of the deadliest in North American history—and the 2023 East Palestine train derailment and chemical disaster in the USA.
Toxic Avengers: America’s poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die
From AI data centers to toxic industrial disasters, the USA has become a deregulated, corporate captured “sacrifice zone.” Now, a history-changing coalition of chemically impacted communities, workers, whistleblowers, and others is rising to fight back.
No union dues for genocide: Inside the historic UAW vote to divest from Israel
“With this vote, we’re really proud to finally be respecting the call from the Palestinian trade union movement so that we can stand in solidarity—as American, Canadian, and Puerto Rican workers here in the UAW—with members of the working class in Palestine.”
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