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“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza...
We speak with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about Israel’s ongoing attacks against aid workers in the Gaza Strip. Israel has admitted it killed seven volunteers with...
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Joint Statement: Canada Must Suspend Arms Trade with Israel
As Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, which has resulted in a devastating number of civilian deaths, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE),...
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India’s Farmers Are Mobilizing Against the Modi Government
Just over three years ago, Indian farmers mobilized in one of the biggest social movements the country has seen for decades, and delivered a significant blow to the government of Narendra Modi. Since...
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Southern Auto Workers Are Rising
Auto workers are gearing up to smash through anti-union bulwarks in Alabama and Tennessee. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the only Volkswagen factory in the world without a union, votes will be counted...
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‘You Are an Inspiration,’ Sanders Tells LA Hotel Workers Fighting for Just...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined hospitality workers in downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they picketed outside one of the dozens of hotels that have yet to reach a contract deal with UNITE HERE Local...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists in 57 German Cities
Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting down bus systems with...
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A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include...
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Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First...
Claire Chang and Steve Buckley knew it wasn’t going to be easy. But the two retail workers-turned-union organizers had been heartened by progress made during the first year of contract negotiations...
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Daimler Truck Workers Are Strike-Ready in the Anti-Union South
Autoworkers in the South are currently engaged in a historic, high-stakes labor struggle against the multinational corporation Daimler Truck North America (DTNA). The labor contract between DTNA and...
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How Unions and Joe Biden Are Launching a New Frontier in American Manufacturing
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer...
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are Today (Early 2024)
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to build international...
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Project 2025: A Warning For Labor
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such...
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Militancy—and Beyond
“At a moment when the political climate for workers is far less hospitable than it was at the height of the New Deal, when right-wing ethnonationalism is competing for the loyalty of the working class,...
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In a Historic Victory, Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union
In a watershed victory, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted tonight “UAW, yes!” The company’s sole non-union plant will finally join the rest of the world. “If Volkswagen...
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1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do
The day after I graduated from college, I jumped into a car with my roommate and another friend and headed south to Mississippi. We were in good spirits after graduation, but we were in a racially...
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Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against...
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to...
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Restaurant Workers Deserve a Livable, Too
Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. While I...
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A Tale of Two Labor Candidates
In late October, 2018, East Bay DSA members and other progressives organized a pre-election rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A wildly-cheering crowd of several thousand came to hear Senator...
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Police Attack Palestine Labor Activists In Front Of Chicago Labor Notes...
Labor For Palestine held a rally on April 19, 2024 in front of the 2024 Chicago Labor Notes Conference in Chicago. It spilled into the street and police attacked and arrested labor Palestine activists....
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