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Looking at the Root Causes of Migration.

As NYC educators worked to make sense of a proposal that UFT union officials were asking them to move forward just 24 hours later, some union members began to raise concerns.

On the anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the Caribbean, Virginia poet Karenne Wood depicts the tragic result for North America’s indigenous people.

Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly deteriorated.

US Steel uses new profits from tariffs to attack union rights and conditions. USW Local 1899 charges that the future of the union is at stake in contract negotiations.

For Jill Lepore, the United States has always been a nation caught between its sunny ideals and its darker realities.

Unions representing sheet metal workers, flight attendants and public service employees took steps Tuesday to support the 2,700 Marriott hotel workers in Hawaii who were on their second day of a strike for higher wages and better benefits.

“There is no end date. It’s an indefinite strike until we achieve our demands,” says Anand Singh, president of the union's Local 2 in San Francisco.

The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve?

Amazon plays a key role in the twenty-first-century economy and has shown it’s vulnerable to pressure. Socialists should get jobs there and organize.