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Strikes
Are Americans Ready to Strike?
This past October, women in Poland used a mass strike to stop an abortion ban. Organizers in the US are looking to similar tactics.
Uber and Lyft’s Trumpian Problem: It’s Not the App, It’s the Exploitation!
Whether or not their CEOs support Trump, Uber and Lyft have an intrinsically Trumpian business model of exploitation.
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To Halt the Slide Into Authoritarianism, We Need a General Strike
To make a general strike possible, we must organize strike funds and other supports to offset risks workers will bear.
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Unions Are at Their Lowest Levels in Decades: To Gain Power We Must Stop Following the Rules
Because activists tend to conflate our legal rights with our actual human rights, we doggedly pursue age-old strategies.
Fighting for Workers’ Rights Under Hostile Labor Laws: Insights From the Deep South
It's possible to fight for workers under a hostile “right-to-work” regime — but unions need to get more militant.
NYC Taxi Drivers Stage Airport Strike to Protest Trump’s “Inhumane and Cruel” Executive Order
President Trump's immigration order prompted the New York Taxi Workers Alliance to halt rides from JFK airport.
Labor Organizing in 2017: Looking Beyond Trump’s Lies on Jobs
Manufacturing became a source of good jobs only after angry working people united to fight the bosses and politicians.
Women Doing Paid and Unpaid Work Are Called to Strike: A Conversation With Erin Mahoney
Women need to build a movement that elected officials of all parties feel accountable to.
At the Birthplace of Auto Workers’ Sit-Down Strikes, Locked Out for Eight Months and Counting
Workers have twice voted no on Honeywell's proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions and curtail overtime pay.
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We Strike Too: Joining the Latin American Women’s Strike From the US
Activists in the US are standing in solidarity with the Latin American women's strike against gender-based violence.