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The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse lines, explained in one chart.

In 2023, a permanent memorial at the site of the fire was unveiled in memory of the workers. The memorial tells the stories of the victims and is a landmark site to visit, mourn, and learn at the very site where factory workers labored and perished.

As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

“This is a way to defund Black people as a whole," retired federal worker Janice Lee said, referring to the layoffs of black government workers.

The riskiest course is to stay the course.

The riskiest course is to stay the course.

The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.

A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.

Labor groups said working conditions had not changed enough to warrant the removal. The company is partly owned by donors to President Trump.

Worker-led and initiated organizing is certainly positive, as labor writer Eric Blanc points, but this emphasis is one piece of a much larger analytical framework for success in organizing.