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Recent victories of today's progressive social movements show us real change is possible if we use smart, rigorous strategies. The right has known this for years. It's past time we catch up.

A Teamster organizer reflects on 2023, a year of labor upsurge: “Corporate America, you’re on notice — we’re not fucking around.”

Working-class Americans rarely end up in the halls of Congress. Fewer than 2 percent of Congress members had working-class jobs at the time they were elected.

Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? Here is how we -- the Portside moderators -- see it. And how you can help Portside.

The new bargaining group will represent thousands of early-career scientists at the US National Institutes of Health.

“Solidarity is the cornerstone of the trade union movement and extends across national borders. Therefore, we are now taking the tools we have and using them to ensure collective agreements and fair working conditions.”

Honolulu police officers who worked during the pandemic are entitled to hazard pay, according to an arbitrator.

Strong and resilient health systems are indispensable to protecting the population from the negative impacts of climate change on their health.

The transition away from a carbon-based economy depends upon the ability of workers & their unions to take collective action & challenge the economic system according to new report from the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice.

Thousands of non-union auto workers are already organizing across the 10 foreign-owned transplants, including Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes, as well as in the electric vehicle sector at Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.