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We need new forms of union organization, and new internationalisn. The global union movement is all we have, the only counterpoint to global capital.

The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads.

Legislation under consideration in New York Massachusetts and other states look like they might offer gig workers some benefits in terms of limited bargaining rights, but they would come at a high cost.

There’s a new union in town: the Producers Union, which is the first all-new Hollywood labor union to be formed in decades.

“It’s about creating a distraction and a real carve-out from the PRO Act,” said Bhairavi Desai, director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

The labor movement will not survive at all, let alone build power, without a serious racial analysis and making racial justice key to their core mission.

Doctors, bank clerks, builders and teachers abandon work to join demonstrations. “This is the start of a new era, one united aim for all Palestinians, wherever they may reside. Our demand is that we want to live freely and in peace."

Factory workers at a Volvo truck plant in southwest Virginia voted by 91 percent Sunday not to ratify a concession-filled contract negotiated by local and International Auto Workers (UAW) officials.

A plan of a committee convened by the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and Service Employees International Union aims to encourage police union members "to speak up and take action if fellow members are violating their professional oath or abusing their power."

Kandist Mallett argues, "Our pre-pandemic lives are not sustainable. They weren’t good for our health or this planet. Let’s evolve past capitalism, past working our lives away, past destroying the planet for profit’s sake."