Jun 4, 2025
Already burdened by years of
funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at
Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country
are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump administration’s
cuts to the federal workforce take effect. In this episode
of Working People,
Maximillian Alvarez...
May 30, 2025
In the latest episode of Working People, we go back to the picket line to get a critical update on the longest ongoing strike in the United States. In October 2022, over 100 workers represented by five labor unions—including production, distribution, advertising, and accounts receivable staff—walked off the job on...
May 22, 2025
At this very moment, Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip who have managed to survive Israel’s
scorched-earth siege and bombing are being deliberately starved to
death as a result of Israel’s 11-week blockade preventing food and
aid from entering Gaza. As Jem Bartholemew writes
at The Guardian, “The
UN’s humanitarian...
May 7, 2025
While state officials and
legislators have positioned Texas to be “the bitcoin mining capital
of the world,” in small towns like Granbury, working-class
residents living next to giant, loud, environmentally destructive
data centers are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boom.
“None of us are...
May 6, 2025
The Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent—and university administrators and state government officials are willingly aiding that assault. On the morning of April 23, at the direction of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, law...