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Where Militant Unionists Come to Plan
The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first...
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Why Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Voting to Unionize Is A Huge Victory for The...
Tennessee Volkswagen workers achieved a historic victory on April 19 by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union. This victory marked the first time since 1941 that a...
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May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But It’s Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
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In Relay Race to Organize the South, Volkswagen Workers Pass the Baton to...
Michael Göbel, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, stepped down from his post yesterday, according to a video message that workers were shown. Göbel had groused in an April...
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Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Oshawa is a small Canadian city on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. It was also the hometown of the late left-wing Canadian politician Ed Broadbent, who would go on to become the national chairman of the...
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May Day 2024: There’s No Democracy Without Trade Unions
This year, in what has been dubbed a historical ‘super election year’, around four billion people will vote in more than 40 countries. But, if we look at the state of democracy around the world, and...
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May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But Its Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
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City University of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout After NYPD...
CUNY workers announced a wildcat sickout after NYPD raided City College’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. It’s the first known job action in the PSC union’s 52-year history. In the evening of Tuesday,...
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“Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity...
Workers around the world rallied Wednesday to mark May Day, with many calling on the labor movement to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In New York, Democracy Now! spoke to demonstrators...
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How Labor Can Aid the Student Movement for Palestine
Since April 18, over one thousand students, faculty members, and community supporters have been arrested at college campus protests across the country. Despite fierce repression from university...
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Can the UAW Turn It Around for Labor in the South?
The United Auto Workers recently scored the largest union victory in decades in the South. Their success at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant could be a turning point for labor in a region long known for...
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Organizing the South: We Look Back To Move Ahead
The significance of the landslide victory by the United Auto Workers (UAW) at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN cannot be overstated. One of the greatest sources of hope for the labor movement in...
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Seattle 1934, Soviet on the docks
Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you– Ye are many — they are few.’ -Percy Bysshe Shelley On the morning of May...
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What’s Really Going on with the Teamsters and with TDU?
As Shawn Fain has acknowledged, Teamsters for a Democratic Union helped to inspire and provide a model for the Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) caucus and for the United Auto Workers membership...
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Amazon Is Holding Special Union-Busting Seminars for Workers
Workers are being told: ‘A union is a business, just like Amazon.’ Amazon union busters are threatening workers with the loss of their jobs if they unionise. At the vast warehouse in Coventry, known as...
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‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December and began...
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How the UAW Could Change the South
The UAW is on a roll. After winning stupendous contracts at the Big Three automakers this past year, the union then organized Volkswagen in Tennessee April 20. What’s eye-popping about this is that the...
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Great Expectations – Germany’s Petite Bourgeoisie
For the past few years, Germany’s petty bourgeoisie or middle class has been losing confidence in society, politics, and capitalism. They are increasingly at odds with the democratic parties they have...
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General Strike Brings Argentina to a Halt Over Milei Austerity Program
Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December and began...
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Political Strikes in Germany
In recent weeks, there has been talks of a return of trade unions in Germany and this is not just because of May Day – the 1st of May – but also because it has been seventy years that the right to...
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