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New York City workers are worried their healthcare may be privatized.

Employees say the recent leaks might have changed the tech giant forever

The South's patrician political leadership still has contempt for the lower classes of "Lubberland"

Now, with vaccinations on the rise and summer approaching, a lot of employers are going back to business as usual. Workers have leverage at this moment.

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.