Workers’ legal rights are inherently precarious in a capitalist economy. Only periodic mass upheaval has renewed them.
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Want to Stop Trump’s Attacks on the NLRB? History Shows Strikes Are the Answer. Read Post »
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to support women, grow jobs, and revive American manufacturing in his second term. But a recent round of cuts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to undermine all three of those supposed priorities. On Tuesday, the Department of Labor (DOL) terminated more than two dozen […]
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DOGE Killed Dozens of Grants That Supported Women Workers Read Post »
A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump’s tariff regime.
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CEO Pay Is Up 50 Percent Since 2019 Compared to 0.9 Percent for Workers Read Post »
Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?
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Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution Read Post »
Buffalo hotel workers are facing off with a Trump-aligned developer in their battle to unionize.
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Buffalo Is a Union Town — But for Hotel Workers, Union-Busting Runs Rampant Read Post »
Survivors of the Rana Plaza disaster, many who can no longer work, are still fighting for compensation.
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12 Years After Factory Collapse, Bangladeshi Workers Fight for a Better Future Read Post »
Union leaders said they didn’t let the uncertainty around tariffs scare them into a conciliatory posture.
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Defying Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike Read Post »
Labor leaders past and present have insisted on expanding the scope of what constitutes health.
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Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy Read Post »
Education workers are mobilizing for a day of action on May 1. Building toward a national walkout should come next.
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To Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Education, We Need Democracy in Our Unions Read Post »
Some unions like United Teachers Los Angeles are including immigrants’ rights protections in their bargaining proposals.
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Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Defends Students From Trump’s Anti-Migrant Crackdown Read Post »
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.
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With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement Read Post »
It reaffirms sanctuary school protections, assures the ability to teach Black history and gives veteran teachers raises.
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As Trump Attacks Education, Chicago Teachers Reach Powerful Tentative Contract Read Post »
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