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Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.

Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union.

Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union.

Labor reporting has something in common with labor organizing: Nobody is going to do it except us.

Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.

The regulatory climate for unions is good. What will they do with it?

Minnesota just banned captive audience meetings, presumably understanding that it is unreasonable to force working people to attend mandatory meetings at which their boss delivers to them the equivalent of an Ayn Rand book reading.

The contract that the writers are striking for could set a powerful precedent that AI must work for people, rather than being used to marginalize people to juice profits.