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![A protester holds a sign reading "DUMP AIPAC" during an outdoor protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0605-aipac-protest-400x300.jpg)
Some of AIPAC’s Biggest Donors Are Also Financing Attacks Against Labor Rights
The movements for labor and Palestinian rights have common cause against the billionaires who aim to destroy them both.
![A United Auto Workers (UAW) lawn sign sits on the ground near a Volkswagen automobile assembly plant on March 20, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2092447739-400x300.jpg)
UAW Accuses Mercedes-Benz of Rampant Violations, Seeks New Union Vote in Alabama
UAW's complaint to the National Labor Relations Board accuses the company of union-busting and “wanton lawlessness.”
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Dockworkers Push Union Resolution to Block Shipment of Israeli Military Cargo
A local International Longshore and Warehouse Union effort builds on decades of support for Palestinian liberation.
![Health care workers at rally](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2151955603-400x300.jpg)
Union Drive at Labcorp Is the Latest in a String of Health Care Organizing Wins
Organizers say corporate efforts to quash a union actually galvanized workers to overwhelmingly vote for one.
![Student holds sign saying "undergrads in solidarity"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1239995008-400x300.jpg)
US Undergrads Are Getting an Extracurricular Crash Course in Labor Organizing
Eleven new labor unions for undergraduate student-workers entered the fray in 2023 alone, and more are organizing.
![A protester in a kuffiyeh chants at cops through a megaphone](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0515-palestine-uaw-400x300.jpg)
Some Unions Are Supporting Student Protesters as Campus Crackdowns Continue
Crackdowns on encampments have become issues of contract violations and workplace safety for some unions.
![Workers join hands together](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0514-dei-400x300.jpg)
Here’s How Workers Can Build Power Amid Corporate Co-optation of DEI Programs
Since 2020, there has been a notable rise in anti-union consultants rebranding themselves as DEI practitioners.
![Amazon workers go on a strike after company aims to block salary increases, cut wages and reduce payments for those working weekends or holidays as part of a new contract agreement on March 21, 2018, in Madrid, Spain.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-935597970-400x300.jpg)
The Era of Lean Production Is Coming to an End. What Does That Mean for Workers?
Climate crisis and the COVID pandemic have revealed the cracks in global supply chains. What comes next?
![General view of a press conference from various Argentine unions during a general strike on May 9, 2024, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2152202356-400x300.jpg)
General Strike Brings Argentina to a Halt Over Milei Austerity Program
The unions blasted President Javier Milei's attacks on labor rights, social security, public health and education.
![Members of the Miami City Ballet performs "Dances at a Gathering" on July 2, 2006, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-564060345-400x300.jpg)
No Contract, No Pirouettes — Ballet Dancers Are Organizing for Labor Rights
Dancers at Miami City Ballet will have a union election on May 14, having endured a concerted union-busting campaign.