Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
The day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, perhaps the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
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40,000-Member Longshore Workers Union Quits the AFL-CIO
In a surprise move, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced its disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO just a week before the federation is set to hold its national convention in Los Angeles.
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Troubles in the Northwest: Longshore Struggle Brews on Both Coasts, Part II
In a conflict involving nearly 3,000 workers at terminals that handle a quarter of the nation's grain exports, the Northwest Grain Handlers Association is demanding harsh concessions from Longshoremen.
