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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.
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.
Trump Employees Vote to Unionize, Protest in Nevada
Some 500 Trump International workers have organized a protest to coincide with this week's GOP caucuses.
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Critics Say Proposed Sulfide Mine in Minnesota Threatens State’s Watersheds
Thousands of critics have voiced concerns about the potential for toxic contaminants from sulfide mines to leach into waterways.
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“Making the Promises Real”: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
A labor climate program can draw together workers, unions and allies around protecting jobs by protecting the climate.
How “Friedrichs” Could Actually Unleash Unions From Decades of Free Speech Restrictions
They just want to kill the unions, and they're used to getting their way.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Doctors Are Organizing Against Corporatized Medicine, and More
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Organizing to Resist the Corporatization of Higher Education
The once hallowed and secure work life of American university faculty has for the past quarter century been in turmoil.
To Fight Back Against Companies Like Uber, Workers Need Organizing – Not Technocratic Fixes
Solutions must tackle the power differential between gig economy workers and the big businesses that control their labor.