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Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
To head off a union drive, Volkswagen boosted wages 11 percent to match the immediate raise UAW members received at Ford.

Green Groups Slam RFK Jr.

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
"With so much at stake, we stand united in denouncing RFK Jr.'s false environmentalist claims."

Antitax Nation

David Cay Johnston The American Prospect
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

Dead Last (With an Emphasis on Dead!)

Juan Cole TomDispatch
Despite the fact that the Middle East has experienced hellish heat waves and epic floods, Middle Eastern regimes get failing grades on climate action

The War on Protest

Adam Federman Type Investigations
Since 2017, 21 states have passed 41 laws enhancing penalties and fines for common protest-related crimes—part of a wave of nearly 300 anti-protest bills introduced nationwide.

Friday Nite Videos | April 19, 2024

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The Biggest Win for Workers in Decades. Criminalizing Homelessness Won't Make It Go Away. If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof Parody). Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's Criminal Trial. A Bombshell Supreme Court Case on Jan. 6.

Militancy—and Beyond

Bob Master Convergence
Millions of non-union workers took notice of the 2023 strike wave. But moving from a year of high-profile strikes to building working class political power, let alone transforming US politics, will not happen automatically.