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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Death is a lot of work
From being a gravedigger’s assistant as a child to working as chief medical investigator for Nueces County, Texas, Ric Ortiz has always lived and worked in close proximity to death.
Recent episodes
A battle for rank-and-file democracy in the AFL-CIO
Officers and members of the Vermont State AFL-CIO have reinvigorated a dying labor council with pushes for democratic governance, community outreach, and political action outside the Democratic party—but the national union leadership is pushing back.
Workers around the world can help end violence against the people of Palestine and Colombia
Through coordinated and direct action, the international working class helped end apartheid in South Africa; it can do the same now to end the violence of occupation in Palestine and the exploitation and police crackdowns in Colombia.
Woke-washing the US military meat grinder
The U.S. military markets itself to working-class and marginalized recruits who are alienated by capitalist society, then it chews them up and spits them out. That’s how the system is designed to work.
Workers in Myanmar are risking their lives to fight against the military coup
Since the military coup began on Feb. 1 of this year, Myanmar has been plunged into political chaos. We interview worker-organizers on the ground about the dangers they’re facing and how they’re fighting back.
Why childbirth is deadlier if you’re not white
The statistics don’t lie: Maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the U.S. are significantly higher in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. We talk with filmmaker Dominique Rémy about her investigation into why this is happening and what can be done about it.
A small-town hospital goes after its union nurses
Instead of resolving short-staffing issues and unsafe working conditions, Lehigh Valley Health Network hospitals in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, are pitting union nurses against non-union staff.
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