Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
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Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide Read Post »
Let’s study how Wall Street sank Mamdani-style municipal plans back in 1975 — and get prepared for a similar fight.
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If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back Read Post »
The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.
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Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.
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23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises Read Post »
Under Trump’s National Security Directive, unions may be threatened if worker actions are deemed a threat to the US.
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Is Organized Labor at Risk Under Trump’s War on Anti-Capitalist “Terrorism”? Read Post »
Indigenous protesters have been demonstrating and shutting down highways since Noboa lifted Ecuador’s diesel subsidies.
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Indigenous-Led Movement Against Austerity Is Gaining Momentum in Ecuador Read Post »
Unions in the US and elsewhere must make huge resource investments to build up the working-class strike muscle.
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Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit? Read Post »
The workers say their pay and workloads keep them from providing the best possible representation for their clients.
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Facing Rising Caseloads and Stagnant Pay, Hundreds of NYC Legal Workers Strike Read Post »
As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
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Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide Read Post »
“I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.
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Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades Read Post »
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 »
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