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Hands off the post office!

May 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
The post office is needed now more than ever. Postal workers are delivering prescription medicines and plenty of other mail and packages to people’s homes during this health crisis. They’re doing so at the risk […]
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#MayDay2020 Chris Silvera, Teamsters Local 808 & Million Worker March organizer speaks

May 2, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Chris Silvera is the Secretary -Treasurer and the Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 808 in Long Island City, New York. Local 808 represents a diverse group of workers including railroad, building maintenance, factory and public […]
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May Day 2020: Strike, don’t die for Trump and capitalism!

April 29, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
When the workers of the world awaken on May 1, 2020, they will confront a global situation that is very different from just a year ago.  Then, the latest capitalist crisis was only taking shape. […]
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ILWU Local 10 says: ‘Unite all working people on May Day’

April 24, 2020 International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10
Our union is facing some historic challenges. The collapse of the world economy and the threat of the coronavirus to our members, families and communities have become a life and death question. While we are […]
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‘Neutron Jack’ the job killer

March 17, 2020 Stephen Millies
Few tears were shed in Schenectady, N.Y., when former General Electric CEO Jack Welch croaked on March 1. Why should there have been? Welch destroyed 22,000 jobs in GE’s hometown in the 1980s. Welch got […]
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California graduate students expand strike for cost-of-living adjustment

March 7, 2020 John Parker
If you go on the website of University of California graduate student workers who are now fighting for a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to manage extremely high rents, you will see daily updates like this:  “UC […]
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Trump’s war on unions: Stand with federal workers!

February 28, 2020 Lev Koufax
On Feb. 21, the Federal Register published a disgraceful anti-worker memo issued by President Donald Trump attacking union rights for civilian workers in the Department of Defense. The memo effectively gives Secretary of Defense Mark […]
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‘Cancel Spectrum’s franchise!’

December 28, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York, Dec. 23 — Striking Spectrum cable workers and their supporters gathered on the steps of City Hall today to demand the New York City Council kick the union-busting outfit out of town. The […]
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‘What do we want? Justice! Boycott Wendy’s!’

November 21, 2019 Anne Pruden
New York, Nov. 18 — Hundreds of Immokalee farmworkers and supporters took over the block outside Wendy’s headquarters this afternoon. Inside the upscale Manhattan offices at 280 Park Avenue were several of Wendy’s board of […]
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Chicago teachers fight ‘for the common good’

November 3, 2019 Scott Scheffer
After 11 days on strike, delegates of Chicago Teachers Union have suspended the Chicago teachers’ walkout and members are headed back to their classrooms.  A tentative agreement has been reached with Chicago Public Schools that […]