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New York nurses strike over patient care, demand hospitals bar ICE

January 22, 2026 Gary Wilson
Bronx, New York, Jan. 22 — Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx walked off the job this week, shutting down routine operations as they pressed a demand that has not previously appeared in […]
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Kaiser nurses set to strike as health care giant profits from ICE detention camps

January 18, 2026 Gary Wilson
When 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers walk off the job on Jan. 26, they will be fighting for safe staffing at a nonprofit health system sitting on $66 billion in reserves — […]
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Striking nurses expose for-profit health care

January 16, 2026 John Parker
New York nurses are on strike. With 15,000 walking out on Monday, Jan. 12, this is the largest nurses’ strike in the city’s history. These nurses represent three different, privately owned hospital systems and are […]
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NYC nurses in historic strike: From ‘heroes’ to ‘disposable’ in the eyes of hospital profiteers

January 13, 2026 Sharon Black
New York, Jan. 13 — Do you remember when New York City nurses were heroes? When they showed up every day at the height of the pandemic, risking their lives to save thousands from a […]
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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 […]