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![Employees install parts on a door for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International factory in Vance, Alabama, on June 8, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0503-uaw-400x300.jpg)
Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties
Links between Yellowhammer’s ownership and Alabama’s anti-union forces shed light on what autoworkers are up against.
![Demonstrators march on the Northrop Mall to call for a ceasefire in Gaza before setting up an encampment on the lawn on April 29, 2024, on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0501-pro-palestine-400x300.jpg)
Our Unions Can Turn the Tide for the Campus Palestine Revolt
Rank and filers can organize unions to join the encampments, strike for Palestine and turn words into action.
![Auto workers embrace, united](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0424-uaw-grouphug-400x300.jpg)
Corporate Power Has Long Dominated Alabama. Autoworkers May Change That.
The UAW’s fight to unionize autoworkers represents a larger struggle against the state’s corporate power structure.
![Volkswagen workers celebrate after they receive enough union votes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-21479374491-400x300.jpg)
Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote to Join UAW in “Historic Victory”
“Even though the deck is stacked against us, momentum is on our side, and we're winning,” said one union leader.
![UAW members attend a rally in support of the labor union strike at the UAW Local 551 hall on October 7, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1712273103-400x300.jpg)
Supermajority of Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama File for Union Vote
The vote is the latest victory of the UAW's aggressive union organizing drive, the largest in U.S. history.
![Employees at a plant of the German carmaker Audi protest over wage demands in San José Chiapa, Puebla state, Mexico, on January 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1950960900-400x300.jpg)
UAW Is Building Worker Solidarity Across the US-Mexico Border
A new initiative aims to unite Mexican and US workers who have for too long been pitted against each other by bosses.
![Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp exits the stage after speak during The Gathering conservative conference hosted and moderated by talk radio host Erick Erickson at the Grand Hyatt hotel on August 18, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0322-brian-kemp-400x300.jpg)
Georgia GOP-Passed Bill Removes Employer Right to Recognize Unions Right Away
As of 2022, only 5.4 percent of workers in Georgia were represented by a union.
![Familias Unidas por la Justicia members join National Farm Worker's Ministry members in a march in July, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0315-f-400x300.jpg)
Indigenous Farmworkers Forge New Fronts for Labor Struggle in Washington State
A farmworkers union is building local and global solidarity as it fights back against big growers in Washington state.
![Protesters with a banner reading 'veto genocide Joe,' in front of a Starbucks Coffee at a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people in Paris, France, on March 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0314-starbucks--400x300.jpg)
How Solidarity With Palestine Helped Boost Starbucks Workers United
There are important lessons for working-class internationalism embedded in the Starbucks organizing experience.
![Starbucks workers, former employees, and supporters hold signs in support of a strike, outside of a Starbucks store in Arlington, Virginia, on November 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0228-starbucks-400x300.jpg)
Union, Starbucks Agree on “Foundational Framework” for Contract Negotiations
The framework reportedly includes an agreement for a universal contract for all unionized stores.