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2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector
Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.
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Workers Strike Back: 2019 Sees The Return of Labor Activism
Today's explosion in worker actions reveals a broad opposition to neoliberalism that is more like a crowd-sourced and coordinated dance than a disciplined march. And it shows no signs of slowing down.
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Why Thousands of Los Angeles Teachers are Going on Strike
The second-largest school district in the country joins a growing national movement for better school funding and higher teacher
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West Virginia Teachers Take a Big Step Forward, But the Struggle Continues
While the West Virginia teachers strike may appear like a bolt from the blue, it was not. We are in a period of mobilization for many progressive movements that goes back at least as far as Occupy Wall Street.
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These Dockworkers Just Showed the Labor Movement How to Shut Down Fascists
What role should the labor movement play in beating back the resurgence of fascism? Resistance, while a powerful concept, is far too vague.
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Trump Resistance Movement Joins Fight for $15 In Massive March on McDonald’s
The Women’s March, Movement for Black Lives, Our Revolution, MoveOn and other heavyweights will join 10,000 underpaid workers in two days of protest at the fast food giant's annual shareholders meeting, starting May 23.
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The South Is Organizing — and There’s No One to Cover It
Workers are less scared of organizing when the press is covering them. The solution? Put more labor reporters in the South.
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Labor On Offense: Congress Introduces Bill to Make Union Organizing A Civil Right
The Ellison-Lewis legislation would amend the National Labor Relations Act to give workers a range of legal options if they feel discriminated against for trying to form a union.
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Year of the Worker: How Labor Struggles Punctuated 2012
As 2012 marked the year of the worker, 2013 must become the year to strengthen the labor movement so that it truly combats poverty and inequality in the U.S.
