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Eos’ Pittsburgh-area battery plant got subsidies aimed at “good clean jobs.” Its workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing.

Musk on the run

Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.

“Our politicians won’t listen to anything, because they’re driven out of self-interest,” says Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother Vivian Silver was killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri.

Deaths from extreme heat, landslides, and other severe weather seem to be rising. Can they be added to fossil fuels’ death toll?

A long-overdue cut-off of U.S. arms to Israel and recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination would provide exactly the shock to the system that is needed.

The greatest sin of Reagan is not its (expectedly) warped worldview, but its total lack of drama.

The strike comes as 40,000 Unite Here hotel workers across 20 cities face expiring contracts this year. Negotiations for new four-year contracts have been taking place since May; about 15,000 of those workers have authorized strikes in 12 markets.

The party may have successfully prevented Palestinians from addressing the DNC. But it cannot hold back the tide forever.

A close look at data suggests unions could be doing a lot more to organize and build the labor movement in this moment.