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Union power wins: Baltimore library workers get jobs back

November 24, 2025 Lev Koufax
Fourteen part-time librarians at the Baltimore County Public Library received a jarring email on the afternoon of Nov. 12. BCPL leadership’s email informed them that they would no longer have jobs. The mass firing came […]
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ILWU rank-and-file leader tells students how Local 10 led the battle against apartheid

November 23, 2025 Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas Jr. is a retired third-generation longshore worker from ILWU Local 10, co-founder of the Million Worker March Movement, and co-founder of DeClare Publishing. In this presentation to students, Thomas told them that his […]
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Teamsters at a crossroads: Rank-and-file challenge takes on O’Brien’s alliance with Trump

November 3, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein
The upcoming election for the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — one of the largest and most powerful unions in the United States — could reshape the direction of the labor movement itself. […]
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Flight attendants vow to fight as gov’t, Air Canada try to crush strike

August 18, 2025 Lev Koufax
The federal government of Canada thought the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike was over on the afternoon of Aug. 17, when it ordered 10,000 striking flight attendants and cabin crew members back to work.  The […]
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SCOTUS to workers: drop dead — Trump’s layoffs can proceed

July 12, 2025 Lev Koufax
On July 8, the Supreme Court rubber-stamped another one of Donald Trump’s fascist policies. This time, the Court lifted all judicial holds on the implementation of Trump and DOGE’s massive layoffs of federal workers.  Seventeen […]
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Labor leader faces prison after standing up to ICE

June 9, 2025 Cheryl LaBash
Unions rally for arrested leader In Washington, D.C., workers rallied across from the Justice Department on June 9 as part of national protests to end deportation raids and to free arrested California union leader David […]
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Locomotive engineers shut down New Jersey Transit

May 17, 2025 Stephen Millies
May 16 — Four hundred fifty members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike at 12:01 a.m. today against New Jersey Transit. The railroad workers, who belong to the International Brotherhood […]
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Postal workers nationwide rally against privatization of USPS

March 26, 2025 Sharon Black
Postal workers across the United States held rallies on March 23 to speak out against ongoing proposals to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Organized by branches of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), […]
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Trump-Musk regime revokes union rights for 47,000 TSA workers

March 14, 2025 Lev Koufax
The Trump administration announced on March 10 that 47,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers would no longer have collective bargaining rights. The vast majority of these workers perform passenger screening and other security responsibilities at […]
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AFGE is under a MASSIVE attack

March 4, 2025 David Gonzalez
David Gonzalez, National Vice President of District 2 AFGE representing federal workers in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, discussed the Trump/Musk DOGE assault with the Teamster National […]