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Why Actors Are Striking For The First Time In 40 Years

Hollywood actors have joined writers on strike and shut down the TV and film industry. Streaming has broken the industry. Successful actors are working second…

Inside The Largest Hotel Strike In Modern U.S. History

15,000 hotel workers in Los Angeles, California, just walked out in the largest hotel strike in 50 years. We spoke to workers about why they're…

What UPS Doesn’t Want You to Know

When you think of good middle class jobs, you probably think of UPS. But the shipping giant has a secret. While full time delivery drivers…

Why Hollywood Writers Are Going On Strike

Brittani Nichols: I write for a show called Abbott Elementary that's on ABC, which is a traditional network, but the next day we're on Hulu…

How Workers Took On A Manufacturing Giant—and Won

Jeff Blazek: What Ingredion spends in one month to keep us out here in the street is all of our salaries for one year. Ingredion…

How The Supreme Court Could Soon Destroy The Right To Strike

Narrated by Sharon Block, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Imagine you’re a newly-unionized Starbucks…

Red Cup Rebellion: Inside The Largest Starbucks Strike Ever

Narrated by Tori Tambellini, Starbucks Union Organizer [On picket]: Good morning! We’re striking! We didn’t think it would come to this. A nationwide strike. 111…

Railroad Strike Ahead? Rail Workers Just Want Sick Leave

Rail workers could be just weeks away from a strike that would shut down much of the U.S. economy. After months of negotiations and a…

UC Grad Students Launch the Largest Academic Strike in U.S. History

University of California graduate student workers have launched the largest academic strike in U.S. history. Most workers struggle to afford to eat, pay rent, or…

Police Violently Attack Striking DHL Delivery Drivers

DHL workers on strike for better pay and stronger benefits were brutalized by police in riot gear in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The picketers who were…

Nurses at One of the Largest Queer Health Clinics in the Country Prepare To Strike

Thirty registered nurses at Chicago’s Howard Brown Health (HBH), one of the largest Queer health clinic systems in the country, are gearing up for an…
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What To Know About the Corn Nuts Strike

Video produced and edited by Libby Rainey and Ian McKenna The workers who make the popular snack food Corn Nuts have been on strike for…