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Minnesota Nurses’ Authorize Strike

Michael Sainato The Guardian
15,000-strong Minnesota Nurses Association authorized to call what would be one of the largest nurses’ strikes in US history

How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England’s Fishing Industry

Will Sennott ProPublica
In recent years, the port of New Bedford has thrived, generating $11.1 billion in business revenue, jobs, taxes and personal income in 2018, according to one study. But a quiet shift is remaking the city and the industry that sustains it, realizing local fishermen’s deepest fears of losing control over their livelihood.

Starbucks To Rehire Seven Unlawfully Fired Workers

Office of Public Affairs, NLRB National Labor Relations Board
NLRB Region-15 Wins Injunction Requiring Starbucks to Rehire Seven Unlawfully Fired Workers, Post the Court’s Order, and Cease and Desist from Unlawful Activities

The Faces We Envision in the Scrapbook of the Dead

Martin Espada North American Review
On the third anniversary of the El Paso Massacre of Latin Americans, prize-winning poet Martin Espada offers a tribute to a human rights lawyer killed by a shooter.

The Photographs of the Border

Aviva Chomsky The Nation
In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories. Corporations know no borders, while they rely on the US-Mexico border to keep wages low...

“Live in Fragments No Longer”

Zephyr Teachout, interviewed by Daniel Drake The New York Review of Books
“Surveillance makes worker coordination and solidarity harder, and big data makes capital coordination easier, so the need for both pro-labor and antitrust laws is greater than ever before.”