Sep 9, 2026
Over the 2026 Labor Day weekend, Working People host
and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke at
the Reuther-Pollack Labor
History Symposium in Wheeling, West Virginia,
organized by the Wheeling Academy of Law & Science (WALS)
Foundation. The theme of this year’s Symposium was
“The Art of Labor,” and...
Sep 2, 2026
The 20th-century days of vinyl records, tape decks, CDs, Tower
Records, and MTV have given way to our 21st-century age of MP3s and
music streaming, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, TikTok, and
Ticketmaster. While certain people and certain companies in the
music industry are making more money than ever, working musicians
are...
Aug 24, 2026
After a deadly “derecho” storm and flash floods slammed the
midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of
thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana have been
surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the
Associated Press, “Northern Indiana Public Service Co.
said...
Aug 19, 2026
In her 2001 masterwork Nickel and Dimed, the late
Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to report on the daily realities
working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage.
After working as a housekeeper, a nursing aide, a home cleaner, a
server, and more, Ehrenreich wrote that “The first thing I
discovered...
Aug 13, 2026
Frontline healthcare workers and the patients they serve are
facing a major crisis at the University of Vermont Health
network—the state’s leading healthcare provider. “In June, UVM
Health eliminated over 140 positions across its network, a third of
which were union positions,” Matt More reports at
The...