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![Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on October 12, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1012-uaw-ford-400x300.jpg)
Workers at Ford’s Most Profitable Plant Have Walked Off the Job
The UAW called on nearly 9,000 members in Kentucky to strike after Ford failed to offer a new contract proposal.
![Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1010-howard-schultz-400x300.jpg)
Schultz Broke Law When He Threatened Pro-Union Starbucks Worker, Judge Rules
Last year, Schultz told an employee, “If you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company.”
![United Auto Workers (UAW) members attend a rally in support of the labor union strike at the UAW Local 551 hall on the South Side on October 7, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1009-uaw-400x300.jpg)
After Rejecting Deal, 4,000 UAW Members Strike at Mack Trucks
The unusually public negotiations between UAW and the Big Three automakers offer Mack workers a point of reference.
![Nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital strike outside the hospital on January 9, 2023, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1455314867-400x300.jpg)
New Jersey Nurses Enter Third Month of Strike for Safe Staffing
The striking nurses emphasized hospital understaffing endangers both workers and patients.
![An illustration of a nanny holding swaddled dollar bills and a jar of coins in the way she would a baby, as other nannies around her contribute to her savings. All are smiling and supportive, and the central nanny holding the bundle has a tear in her eye.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1006-nanny-economy-400x300.jpg)
NYC Nannies Built an Underground Care Economy That Should Inspire US Policy
A circle of nannies in New York City created an underground care economy that challenges us to dream bigger.
![A pedestrian walks past a billboard announcing the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund annual meetings, on the side of the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington D.C. on October 5, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1006-world-bank-400x300.jpg)
Debt Abolition Activists Gear Up for Countersummit as World Bank and IMF Meet
Activists from the global movement for debt abolition are converging October 12-15 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
![A nurse holds coffee while looking at cell phone](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1006-nurse-400x300.jpg)
How Does Gig Nursing Work Affect Patients, Nurses and Health Care Facilities?
Classifying nurses as contractors gives companies more power and limits workers’ ability to hold them accountable.
![Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Charles P. Rettig, commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, before departing from the White House on October 2, 2018, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1005-trump-irs-400x300.jpg)
Under Trump, IRS Audited Low-Income Families at Higher Rate Than Millionaires
More than a million wealthy Americans have evaded close to $66 billion in federal taxes in recent years.
![President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Supreme Court's decision on the Administration's student debt relief program in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on June 30, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1004-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
“Nickels and Dimes”: Biden Touts $9B in Student Debt Relief as Payments Restart
Student loan payments resumed for the first time since 2020 on Sunday.
![Healthcare workers take part in a rally at Kaiser Permanente's main medical facility in Kaiser P on Monday, September 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1004-kaiser-400x300.jpg)
75,000 Kaiser Permanente Workers Begin Largest Health Care Strike in US History
Workers say that hospital executives are refusing to fix dire understaffing issues.