Working People
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.
The Real News Network proudly partnered with Working People during Season Four of the show and will be posting all new episodes here on the TRNN website. To listen to the back catalog of Working People episodes, listen and subscribe on your podcast player of choice using the buttons below.
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If the government shuts down, so does the NLRB—that’ll hurt the strikes
A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.
Recent episodes
UAW workers explain why they’re ready to strike
Auto workers are poised to strike against the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—workers from each of these companies explain what’s driven them to this point.
South Korea’s war on unions has geopolitical implications
Biden has embraced deeply unpopular President Yoon Seok Yeol for his pro-US policies, willfully ignoring South Korea’s brutal crackdown on labor and its human rights implications.
This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?
The new WVU budget slashes nearly 10 percent of majors and 7 percent of all faculty—but students and staff aren’t going down without a fight.
30 years after Yugoslavian socialism, Slovenian unions fight for the workers capitalism has forgotten
When Yugoslavian socialism collapsed three decades ago, Slovenian workers faced a new reality of capitalist exploitation, but they got McDonald’s in return. We talk to trade union leader Ana Jakopič about the class struggle in Slovenia today.
How immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota took on Amazon and won
Khali Jama is a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker in Minnesota. With her coworkers at Amazon and organizers at the Awood Center, Jama helped pass the nation’s strongest warehouse worker protection legislation.
Without action, East Palestine will happen again
The devastating train wreck disaster caused by Norfolk Southern has been all but forgotten five months later—but it’s not too late to build a safer, greener, more humane rail system to prevent another catastrophe.
The UPS showdown: What to expect from a strike
With just a week left for the Teamsters and UPS to work out a new contract, the prospects of a massive 340,000-strong strike grow greater by the day.
He tried to raise the alarm about railroad safety. Then he got fired.
Michael Paul Lindsey II, a 17-year locomotive conductor and engineer, has been outspoken on Tik Tok and in interviews about the dangerous and exploitative business practices of railroad corporations. He was recently fired by Union Pacific.
UPS-Teamsters could strike Aug 1: What you need to know
UPS Teamsters will walk off the job in one of the largest strikes in US history unless the company can satisfy workers’ demands by July 31. We talk to Sean Orr, a UPS package-car driver and elected shop steward, about what workers are fighting for.
Pride reminds us that the labor movement must fight for everyone
We talk to union organizers Jessica Gonzalez and Fae Weichsel about the role the labor movement can and must play in the fight to defend LGBTQ+ rights against the fascist attacks from the right.
Underpaid and unsupported, video game testers in Canada unionized against exploitation
For UFCW 401 workers in Edmonton, the issue wasn’t just minimum wage salaries—but also a call to return to office and pay exorbitant parking fees.
Canada’s labor movement faces an uphill climb
Labor militancy has surged in recent years, but Canada’s labor movement is as battered as its other social movements from decades of neoliberalism.
In Canada, the strike wave is winning workers real gains
A reinvigorated labor movement post-COVID is shaking up workplaces and strengthening unions in Canada. But there’s still more work to do. Between a cost-of-living crisis, an ascendant right wing, and many workers still left out of the movement, can labor meet the moment?
Labor must join the fight to Stop Cop City
Kamau Franklin and Mariah Parker join this urgent episode of ‘Working People’ to discuss the movement to stop Cop City in Atlanta.
These workers are making Baltimore a union town again
From museums to grocery stores, a union push is making itself felt in Baltimore. Worker-organizers from a range of industries gather at The Real News studios for a special panel.
East Palestine, 100 Days Later
Months after an explosive Norfolk Southern train derailment changed their lives and communities forever, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area feel “numb,” lied to, and abandoned… and they’re running out of drinkable water.
A new generation of organizers are building union power in the South
Through creativity and dedication, organizers are mounting the region’s unique challenges to unionizing and fighting for worker power.
Hollywood writers are striking to save the industry from corporate destruction
WGA reps say the rise of AI and streaming platforms has decimated working conditions and pay, putting the future of the industry at risk.
UMich docks pay, calls cops on striking grad students
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.
Kayla Denker speaks out against death threats, transphobic backlash
Denker, a trans woman, war veteran, and legal gun owner, posted a video online toting a gun in response to CPAC’s call to “eradicate” “transgenderism.” She’s become a target of an internet trans panic mob ever since.
I’ve been a train conductor for 17 years—corporate greed has ruined the railroads
Second-generation railroad worker Bryan Mack of Florence, South Carolina relates his many years on the rails and how profit-chasing executives have sacrificed workers, customers, and the public to protect rail carriers’ margins.
350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS
With new leadership at the helm, the Teamsters are re-introducing themselves as a fighting union—a major contract struggle with UPS this summer is among their first tests.
‘You’re going to see more books get banned’: Teachers describe Florida’s war on public schools
As this interview with Florida public school teachers shows, Ron DeSantis’s war on “wokeness” is really an attack on public education and school unions.
University of Michigan seeks court injunction to stop grad student strike
Striking for the second time in three years, graduate student-workers at UMich are demanding support with housing, childcare, gender-affirming healthcare, and more.
Duke University’s ploy to ban graduate student unions at all private universities
With student-workers about to strike, Duke is appealing to the NLRB to change its rules on graduate student unions across the country.
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