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Strikes
Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive
Unions and worker co-ops are using collective bargaining to build collective ownership, which could radically reshape the economy.
As Attacks on Unions Continue, Bringing Back the Strike May Be Our Only Hope
Labor activists and leaders have to figure out more strategies to revive the strike today.
Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave of Strikes for 2016 Primaries
Starting with strike to coincide with Democratic debate, workers launched initiative to push candidates to support union rights, wages.
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Impending Chicago Teachers’ Strike Adds Power to Nationwide Movements Against Inequality and Racism
As Chicago protests continue, the teachers union has an opportunity to make powerful demands for racial and economic justice.
Massive Rolling Strikes Shut Down Quebec
Public sector workers carried out rolling one-day strikes across Quebec in October and November.
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IKEA’s Double Standard on Workers’ Rights
If IKEA is really committed to the right of workers to unionize, why did the company recently hire union-busting lawyers?
Seattle Teachers Reach Settlement After Five-Day Strike
Issues were teacher pay, lengthening the school day without compensation, and proposals to curb standardized testing.
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Hero or Coward: Could Skipping My Student Loan Payments Start a Revolution?
A college professor is calling for a massive student debt strike with only one necessity.
Seattle Strike Enters Fifth Day as Teachers Protest Testing Policies, Racial Inequity and Low Wages
The impasse has delayed the start of the public school year for about 53,000 students.
After Threatening to Strike, Airport Workers Win Agreement, Will Push for $15
Twelve hundred workers at New York's John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports may soon be negotiating a contract.