The 3 Best Working People Podcast Episodes
1) Mini-cast: Show Me What Democracy Looks Like (w/ Astra Taylor)
A section from our chat with Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker, organizer, and co-founder of the Debt Collective. We talk about Astra's new documentary, What Is Democracy?, and her companion book, Democ...Show More
2) Labor Is Antifascist (w/ Kooper Caraway)
UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: We talk to Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO and Labor Rep for AFSCME Council 65 about the labor movement in South Dakota and about doing labor organizing th...Show More
3) Mini-cast: UCSC Strike
In this week's mini-cast, we talk with Veronica, Marcelo, and Justin, three grad student workers involved in the ongoing wildcat strike at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Additional link...Show More
4) Tech workers protest Microsoft's ties to ICE terror and Israel's war crimes
In just six months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) more than tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform,The Guardian reports, "at the same time that its arsenal o...Show More
5) They won their strike fair and square. Now their rich bosses are closing up shop.
On Nov. 24, 2025, in a major and hardwon victory, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members finally returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after more than three years on strike. Then, on Jan. 7, ...Show More
6) NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike
The longest-running nurses strike in New York City history has come to an end—for some. Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, however, overwhelmingly voted this week to reject a tentative agreement...Show More
7) Massive strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week
An estimated 31,000 health care workers in California and Hawaii walked off the job on Jan. 26 in their ongoing battle with healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to address workers' demands for safe staf...Show More
8) America's toxic future looks like East Palestine, OH, today
Feb. 3, 2026 marked the three-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Over the last t...Show More
9) "A hero": Nurses, federal workers honor Alex Pretti
Hundreds of union nurses, federal workers, and local residents gathered outside the Veterans Affairs central office building in Washington, DC, on Jan. 28, to hold a vigil for Alex Pretti and all who ...Show More
10) Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing
On Friday, Jan. 23, around 50,000 people in Minneapolis, MN, engaged in a historic mass strike and day of protest to demand an end to ICE terror and President Trump's federal siege of Minnesota. Then,...Show More