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These hotel workers just took on Trump — and won
Trump’s company battled unions during his campaign, but the deal ends a bitter dispute over pay at his Las Vegas hotel and eases discord at his D.C. property. By Jonathan O'Connell and Drew Harwell.
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A guide to rebuilding the Democratic Party, from the ground up
Organizationally, the US right is light-years ahead of the left. A leading political scientist explains what Democrats should do to change that. By Theda Skocpol.
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Higher Minimum Wage May Have Losers
As more cities and states raise their minimum wages, researchers question how much difference the changes will make for the working poor.
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6 Ways We Could Improve NAFTA for Working People
For years we’ve talked about the shortcomings of the North American Free Trade Agreement (we even released this detailed report on its 20th anniversary) and how trade deals created behind closed doors with corporate CEOs harm working people. Today we released a blueprint for how to rewrite NAFTA to benefit working families… By the AFL-CIO.
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Police say they were ‘authorized by McDonald’s’ to arrest protesters, suit claims
Fight for $15 chapter in Memphis alleges that officers engaged in surveillance and intimidation of fast-food worker organization. By Dominic Rushe.
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Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? By Monte Reel.
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Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump
A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg. By Sarah Leonard and Rebecca Rojer.
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Don’t let establishment opportunists ruin the resistance movement
As a powerful grassroots movement emerges, some want to use it for their own gain. The history of the Tea Party has important lessons on how to avoid that. By Thomas Frank.
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How West Virginia Lost the Workers’ Revolution
“I had only been in West Virginia for a day when Josh Sword, the head of the state AFL-CIO, told me casually that a revolution is coming. He is not a particularly radical guy…” By Hamilton Nolan.
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The Neglected Legend of Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta, a largely unsung hero in the fight for farmworkers’ rights, is the subject of the new movie, Dolores, that recounts her life as a feminist and union organizer, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina.
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America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead. By David Krugler.
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Teachers’ Unions Defend Public Education
The privatizers say that “education is the civil rights issue of our time,” and they present themselves as crusaders for civil rights when they demand that teachers be fired, public schools closed, and that privately managed charter schools and vouchers be provided. By Diane Ravitch.
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A Billionaire Destroyed His Newsrooms Out of Spite
DNAinfo and Gothamist weren’t shuttered because of money. They were shut down because they unionized. By Hamilton Nolan.
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Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging
The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems. That fundamental problem is that the US left is not organized as or led by any class conscious or class oriented formations. Union membership is somewhere around 5% of the workforce, and major unions have long been captured by the Democratic party. By Bruce A. Dixon.
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In the Battle for Blair Mountain, Coal Is Threatening to Bury Labor History
It's the site of the nation’s single largest armed uprising since the Civil War and its most violent labor insurrection. And coal companies are trying to erase that history. By Ron Soodalter. (Jan. 31, 2018)
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The Top Labor Battles in West Virginia History
West Virginia has been the site of mass labor militancy many times before. Here are some of the highlights. By Branko Marcetic.
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“It Was About the Insurance Fix”
West Virginia teachers are engaged in an inspiring illegal strike. They’re also showing why we desperately need Medicare for All. By Meagan Day.
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The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream Review
As a worker in freight and a Teamster, I found the book extremely valuable in explaining how the employers colluded with each other and the federal government to create a new system of labor control that depressed wages and drove the union out of most of the trucking industry. By Ryan Haney, Teamsters Local 745 in Dallas, Texas. (Oct. 2, 2017)
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The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep
The notorious union-busting agency has resurfaced in a telecommunications labor dispute, revealing how it has adapted to the 21st century. By Sarah Jones.
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EPI: The Supreme Court is poised to make forced arbitration nearly inescapable
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether employers can lawfully require workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements that include class and collective action waivers. By Heidi Shierholz and Celine McNicholas.
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