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The union's formation comes after years of rising employee tensions at Google over the company's practices, including its work with the defense sector, plans for a censored search engine in China, and handling of sexual misconduct claims.

Early signals from his transition have been mixed, but Biden owes a debt of gratitude to the labor movement for his shot at the throne. This is no moment to kick back and give Biden time to settle in.

The fight for Medicare for All is one of the most important in the United States today. And despite the many horrors of 2020, the movement demanding an end to our privatized health system actually made some headway this year.

“The proposal to reduce the 60-hour overtime threshold threatened to regulate New York’s family farms out of existence,”

There is work to do—and people who want to work.

FedEx workers at the Memphis World Hub said they were pressured to work faster than they felt was safe.

Nelson is emblematic of the new rising labor movement—one increasingly defined, unlike that of the past, by women and so-called women’s work.

David Bacon remembers Fred Hirsch.

Ultimately the effort will require the dovetailing of internal worker organization at multiple facilities—like what Amazonians United is doing—with the power and resources of one or several national unions, like RWDSU or the Teamsters, for instance.

Disasters, missed opportunities, and a few bright spots in 2020.