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What do we know about how strikes are measured and why workers strike?

The longevity diet is a set of eating recommendations compiled by Valter Longo, director of the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute; he is known for his research on the role of fasting and its impact on aging and disease.

Unions aren’t just vehicles for transforming society — they also transform lives, as workers and organizers learn how to build an organization that can overthrow the authoritarian dictatorship of the boss and create a beloved community.

A B.A.N. documentary tells the story of the Blackest movie ever made

Rail workers are preparing to vote down an agreement that narrowly averted a work stoppage in September.

Watching night news, Poet Kelly R. Samuels suggests it’s so much formula, it might even be robotic.

Teamsters won their strike at America's largest wholesale food distributor with an old-fashioned militant tactic: the mass picket line. “It was old school—unions shutting the thing down,” said a UPS driver. “It’s a magical feeling, the solidarity and the power that comes with it; the connection that’s made by standing together shoulder to shoulder, holding the line."

Municipal retirees and supporters rallied against the switch to privatized for-profit Medicare Advantage health insurance. UFT President Michael Mulgrew continues to advocate amending NYC’s Administrative Code, allowing the switch to happen.

Workers at Amazon are increasing pressure on the world’s largest retailer with strikes and protests aimed at improving working conditions and wages as the company continues to fend off unionization efforts.

"It was from a humanizing perspective and was not one of objectifying or exploitation," said Chinonye Chukwu in an interview regarding ‘Till’