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Radical Philosophy and the Free Alabama Movement
The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.
Incarcerated Workers Launch Nonviolent Work Strike Against “New Jim Crow” Across Alabama Prisons
Peaceful protest demands wages for labor, end to overcrowding and inhumane conditions, transformation of American justice system.
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Workplace Democracy
We need a whole new approach to labor law in the United States that provides workers more freedom and democracy in the workplace.
Workers at Nation’s Top Hospital Strike for Fair Wages
The Real News goes to the picket lines as Johns Hopkins Hospital workers launch a three-day strike for living wages.
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University of California Student-Workers Strike, Reject Neoliberal Violence
Members of the union representing teaching assistants, associate instructors and undergraduate tutors across the University of California system went on strike for two days last week over working conditions …
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All for One and One for All: Learning To Build a Social Justice Union
“How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers,” a Labor Notes book, tracks how the Chicago Teachers Union built itself up as an agent of community and …
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Teachers’ Strikes, Catching Fire
From Oregon to Minnesota, school is out unless teachers and communities are heard.
Teachers on Strike From the UK to Argentina
Education Professor Lois Weiner breaks down what connects tens of thousands of striking teachers in the UK, and why recently American teachers have been absent from forming their own …
Vermont Bus Drivers Strike Over Dangerous Conditions
Municipal bus drivers in northern Vermont are striking today against unsafe conditions, surveillance and discipline, and part-time status, in a show of union solidarity that could prove a powerful …
How the GOP Ambushed the VW Union Election
Congressional Republicans and anti-union organizations have adopted the term “ambush elections” to describe new NLRB rules on union certification, but the real ambush of recent weeks was the GOP …