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Trump messed with Texas. Now an army of pissed-off Texans are fighting his border wall

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He loved working in concrete. Now, he's dying from the chemical exposure

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Want to save the world? Start by unionizing your workplace

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Toledo residents' lives upended by deadly Brent Industries explosions

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"Purge Palantir!": Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system

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Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter (Wheeling, WV Labor Symposium Speech)

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Can anyone "make it" in today's music industry?

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"Katrina 2.0": Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)

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No such thing as 'unskilled work': Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' 25 years later

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Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: Vermont healthcare workers and patients face historic crisis

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Oil giant BP locks out workers at its last unionized refinery in US

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Railroad jobs have "gotten worse" since Biden and Congress blocked workers from striking

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Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

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Data centers are not a "red state" or "blue state" problem; they're a working-class problem

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Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next?

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Toxic Avengers: America's poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die

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UAW becomes first major union to divest from Israel

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FBI raids homes of Michigan students and workers for Palestine activism

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LIVE SHOW w/ Kim Kelly, Alex Press, and Hamilton Nolan

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Who's afraid of Chris Smalls?

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'They were going after everyone': Baltimore security officers fired and removed from schedules after lawful strike

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Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them

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Over 4,000 UAW members on strike at Harvard University

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Meet the new Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bosses, same as the old bosses

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Alec Baldwin backs union drive at Starbucks

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May 1: A Nationwide 'Economic Blackout' Against Billionaires and Authoritarianism

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'The rain was black': A plant explosion set off a toxic bomb in this Louisiana town

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Baltimore security guards strike for respect, healthcare, and a union

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US postal workers side with communities over collaboration with ICE: "Don't be a snitch"

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Immigrant workers launch largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years

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Fourth-generation fisherwoman Diane Wilson goes on hunger strike against Dow Chemical

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"ICE got me": The urgent fight to free Ludovic Mbock

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Sean O'Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him

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Tech workers protest Microsoft's ties to ICE terror and Israel's war crimes

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They won their strike fair and square. Now their rich bosses are closing up shop.

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NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike

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Massive strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week

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America's toxic future looks like East Palestine, OH, today

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"A hero": Nurses, federal workers honor Alex Pretti

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Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing

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"Shut everything down": Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23

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The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won

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What does it mean to be a union member in these dark times?

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'We're done': Starbucks workers launch indefinite national strike

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Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: 'There's so many cops everywhere'

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Life after genocide: A Gazan's message to the world about the ceasefire

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Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world

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This government shutdown is not like the others: Furloughed federal workers explain

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Will Texas State University fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist's doctored video?

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Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt

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Federal whistleblowers illegally fired after exposing 'chaos' at Trump's HUD

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Federal whistleblowers expose how Trump's HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans

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The biggest labor story in the US right now is happening at Microsoft

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'Microsoft is an active partner in the genocide!': Inside the tech worker revolt for Palestine

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'We want life": Palestinians in Gaza describe their daily struggle to survive

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Unions face extinction under Trump. What the hell is labor doing to fight back? (w/ David Huerta & Everett Kelley)

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Railroad workers explain why Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific mega-merger will be a 'disaster'

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These 'neighbors from the hood' saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back

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Corporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant 'sacrifice zone'

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What good is a union in Hell?

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How union organizing can change your life and the world w/Jaz Brisack | Working People

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"These cuts are death sentences": Trump's "Big, Disastrous Betrayal Bill"

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What's really happening in Los Angeles vs. what you're hearing online

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Trump plans massive military parade while cutting veteran jobs, benefits, & healthcare

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Trump cuts leave VA hospital nurses and veteran patients in a crisis

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An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US: 'Some things don't change at the Post-Gazette'

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"It is our moral imperative": Oregon students hunger strike for Gaza

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'Like being tortured': Texas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored

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FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan

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A bitcoin mine in Texas is "killing us slowly," local residents say

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'A tremendous chilling effect': Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks

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'People are hiding in their apartments': Inside Trump's assault on universities

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"Kill the Cuts": Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

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Trump escalates the war on federal unions

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Uprising of the 20,000

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Privatize USPS? Mail carriers are fighting for a better idea

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Show us the ropes: How Touchstone Climbing Gym workers unionized five locations

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'It's Elon versus everyone': A dire warning from fired federal workers (w/ Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister, & Will Munger)

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Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind (w/ Ashley McCollom, Hannah Loyd, & Kristina Baehr)

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Democracy dies, first, in the workplace (w/ Hamilton Nolan & Sara Nelson)

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Sick Georgia residents have been abandoned after toxic BioLab fire (w/ Hannah Loyd, Christina O'Connor, & Jeramie Julian)

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What working people's struggles to survive the Great Depression can teach us today (w/ Dana Frank)

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Judy Gearhart and the Labor Link Podcast - What can a can of tuna teach us about International Worker Solidarity

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Catholic nurses at Ascension call on Bishops to help with contract fight (w/ Gideon Eziama & Lisa Watson)

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"Let's unite!": Poisoned residents of America's sacrifice zones are banding together (w/ Hilary Flint, Melanie Meade, Elise Keaton Wade, & Angela Shaneyfelt)

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How will railroad workers vote after Biden and Congress blocked their strike? (w/ Hugh Sawyer, Mark Burrows, & Ron Kaminkow)

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SpoOoOoky Special 2024: The Movie that Traumatized Us All

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Workers take on Kaiser Again, Strike for a Fair Contract in SoCal

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After two years of striking, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers aren't ready to give up

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Look for the Helpers: Organizing Relief Aid in Asheville, NC, After "Apocalyptic" Hurricane Helene (w/ Byron Ballard & Lori Freshwater)

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Cornell's Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity Protests Could Force Grad Student-Worker to Leave US (w/ Jawuanna McAllister & Jenna Marvin)

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Microsoft AI Data Center Comes for Drought-Battered Mexican Town's Water (w/ Diana Baptista)

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Alec Plant

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When Work Inspires Art: Labor Poet George Fish

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Seven unions demand end to US military aid to Israel (w/ George Waksmunski & Brandon Mancilla)

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300 Episodes of 'Working People'! Announcements, reflections, & what comes next...

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What it Means to 'Walk the Walk': the NEA Staff Lockout (w/ Rowena Shurn and Ambereen Khan-Baker)

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From the East Palestine Derailment Disaster to the Toledo Water Crisis (w/ Mike Balonek & Chris Albright)

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Teamsters Members React to Sean O'Brien's RNC Speech (w/ Amber Mathwig, Tony, Chantelle, Rick Smith, Zoey Moretti Niebuhr, Jess Leigh, Kat, & Robert Conklin)

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Dispatch from Labor Notes & Railroad Workers United Conferences (Chicago, 2024)

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