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CTUL Declares Victory in Breakthrough Worker Protections for Janitors at Target Stores
Target Corporation changes course to implement workers' rights policy in contracted cleaning at stores after four years of CTUL organizing
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Fight for 15 in NYC Just Got a Lot More Promising and a Lot More Complicated
Bill de Blasio's role in helping Andrew Cuomo attain the endorsement of the Working Families Party has opened up a space for a more vigorous and radical discussion of …
Austerity/Immiseration Capitalism: What Can We Learn From Venezuelan Socialism?
An emerging choice to neoliberal capitalism - 21st century socialism in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - provides a stark contrast to European and US austerity-immiseration capitalism. There is …
Steve Early on Labor Reporting: “Unions Can Be Thin-Skinned About Criticism“
The real movers and shakers in any struggle to transform the labor movement are the working members.
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How to Be a Staffer in a Democratic Union
We asked four experienced staffers how they see their jobs and how they translate the idea that the members run the union into their day-to-day tasks.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Announces an Order to Help Americans Pay Student Loans, and More
President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.
Dark Money, Dirty War: The Corporate Crusade Against Low-Wage Workers
Attacks on worker organizing are taking place against a backdrop of an economy in crisis.
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Dahr Jamail | Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster?
The idea of storing radioactive nuclear waste inside a hollowed-out salt cavern might look good on paper. But serious problems could result if there is fracking nearby.
Growing Up in the Cauldron of 1960’s Detroit
Robert Johnson, who while working with George Soros “broke the Bank of England,” talks about growing up in the turmoil of racial tension and the mass movement against the …
Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage – Will Your Town Be Next?
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.