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The United Auto Workers union prevailed in a watershed representation election at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory. American labor unions have mounted a campaign across traditionally employer-dominated, ant-union states in the South and West. So-called...
by Wilson Dizard III
on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 07:50 PM PDT
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Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer grit. They even set efficiency standards despite...
by David McCall
on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 08:33 AM PDT
with 23 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, indeed, it is getting warmer (and warmer and warmer) on this planet of ours. It’s not just that records are being set for an...
by TomDispatch
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:12 AM PDT
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James Crawford served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps maintaining the radar systems on super-sophisticated warplanes built to fend off enemy attacks from air, sea and land. But not once during his time in numerous ports as far away as Asia did he...
by David McCall
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 185 Recommends
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain testified before the Senate Thursday , highlighting the progress our ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 431 Recommends
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This commentary could be, but isn’t about abortion. Since the Supreme Court majority chose to rip away a previously guaranteed right by axing the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, we’ve seen women facing potentially lethal complications from their...
by Meteor Blades
on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 09:16 AM PST
with 490 Recommends
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The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission. To provide for her family in the face of corporate price-gouging, she bought off-brand items and selected eggs for protein instead of higher-costing meat....
by David McCall
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 10:41 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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Over the weekend, “60 Minutes” aired a piece on Moms for Liberty, the conservative “watchdog” group that has inspired absurd book bans across the country. Two of the founders of the group, ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
with 655 Recommends
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The eight counties that make up California’s San Joaquin Valley Air District form the nation’s most productive farming area. In 2022, it produced citrus, almonds, tomatoes, pistachios, walnuts, alfalfa, corn, winter wheat, rice, livestock, and other...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 187 Recommends
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Tanya Gaines and her co-workers launched a union drive 10 years ago because it was the only way to win livable wages, fair treatment and safe working conditions at the Golden Dragon copper tube manufacturing plant in Pine Hill, Ala., one of the state’s...
by David McCall
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 07:48 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
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This is reposted from Regional Labor Review, Fall 2023. It is based on research for my upcoming book from SUNY Press, Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania. Between 1920 and 1950, Central...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 10:05 AM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Christopher Betterley arrived at the Altamont Veterans Facility in Buffalo, N.Y., a few years ago needing a home, a haircut and a fresh start after treatment for alcohol use. He saw a sign tacked to the shelter’s dining room wall advertising jobs at...
by David McCall
on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 06:14 AM PST
with 243 Recommends
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Last year, “the biggest auto strike in generations”, culminated in the most consequential deal between unions and big business in decades. These auto strikes were not the only way in which workers fought back against decades of wage suppression and...
by aki1time
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 05:12 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Mike Morales’s doctor advised him to take four weeks off for an important procedure, and the longtime crane operator readily agreed, secure in the knowledge that he wouldn’t lose a dime in pay or face other repercussions at work. Morales’ union...
by David McCall
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:47 AM PST
with 18 Recommends
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A new report compiled by think tank Groundwork Collaborative shows the inflation we continue to see across the country is mostly driven by corporate profits. According to their findings, “corporate profits drove 53 percent of inflation during the...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM PST
with 368 Recommends
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This is now the frontrunner in the GOP primary: A Republican running in Ohio's U.S. Senate race was sued over a dozen times as the owner of a Massachusetts car dealership amid a broader fight over how businesses paid overtime to commissioned employees...
by poopdogcomedy
on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 06:39 AM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Libbi Urban’s co-workers broke into applause at the union hall last year when they learned that their new contract with Cleveland-Cliffs not only increased wages by a whopping 20 percent but provided greater work-life balance and even enabled them to...
by David McCall
on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 07:39 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
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Keith Beavers began to cut household expenses and raid his savings when Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) forced him and other union members into an unfair labor practice strike two years ago. As difficult as it was for Beavers to get by without a...
by David McCall
on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 07:57 AM PST
with 5 Recommends
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The House Committee on Education and the Workforce convened Wednesday to discuss the Biden administration’s proposed labor rule, which would reportedly make 3.6 million more Americans eligible for overtime pay and protections. The Republican-controlled...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM PST
with 195 Recommends
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