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Could a movie musical about a trans Mexican drug lord be this awards season’s Crash?

Last month, workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the first such filing since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017. We spoke with some of the workers about the union

In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.

Environmentalists and even agribusinesses and food conglomerates talk about supplanting industrial methods with kinder and gentler “regenerative agriculture” that revives the pastoral wisdom of our ancestors.

IRC NY is the eighth office in the nation to announce unionization with IRC Workers UNITE- OPEIU.

California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza.

The absence of a socialist left rooted in the working-class is deeply felt in the declining role of the union movement in leading social struggles in Canada as it had for a century.

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."

TWU President "“Richie Davis didn’t enhance anything but his ego,” New York City Organizaiton of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola told Work-Bites. “Medicare Advantage is known nationally as a predatory health plan."