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Nearly 20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How’d They Do That?
Left out by traditional unions, women-led domestic workers are winning fights for minimum wage and overtime across the country.
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CUNY Professors and Staff Consider Future Strike to Defend Public Education Funding
New York City's public university system employees have turned to confrontational tactics to obtain a long overdue contract.
Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions
The effects of labor outsourcing and the end of landlines undergird the Verizon strike by CWA and IBEW union members.
Can the Climate Movement Break Free From the “Jobs vs. Environment” Debate?
As climate activists prepare for Break Free 2016, organizers could do more to incorporate unions in their plan to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
GOP Looks to Protect Union-Busting Firms From Transparency Rule
Republicans criticized a regulation that will force employers to disclose ties to outside union-busting advisers.
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Young Sanders Fans Pledge Solidarity With Verizon Strikers — Even if It Means Slower Internet
In the run-up to the New York primary, a Verizon workers' strike served as the centerpiece of a Bernie Sanders campaign event.
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Immigrant Activists Call for AFL-CIO to Expel Border Patrol Union After Donald Trump Endorsement
“There's no room for hate in the house of labor,” said the Not1More campaign.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Scalia’s Absence Has Led to Progressive Supreme Court Victories, and More
Justice Antonin Scalia was a champion of so-called conservative values.
Amid Price Plunge, North American Oil and Gas Workers Seek Transition to Renewable Sector
As oil prices continue to drop, workers laid off by the shale bust in the U.S. are also transitioning.
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Getting Beyond the Goods: Direct or Indirect Action in the US Union Movement
We must aim to build organizations committed explicitly to the primacy of direct action.