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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’

GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize.

“Food really puts us on the spot in terms of making us perform for those around us who will, or at least we think will, be judging us based on how and what we eat,” says Adam Lowenstein, the author of Horror Film and Otherness.

Around the world Amazon workers are rising up. Look for some new action on "Black Friday" (Nov. 25) coordinated by a half-dozen unions and worker organizations.

Doctors’ unions are rare in the US, and unions comprised of both physicians and other medical providers are even rarer. But in North Carolina, a group of medical providers has successfully organized an interprofessional union.