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Today’s general strike in Italy paralyzed transport and brought two million people into the streets. Even after years of setbacks for organized labor, it staged a historic protest in solidarity with Palestine.

35 union locals, nationals, or other levels of union bodies in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts

We won a $2 an hour raise across the board, raising the starting wage from $18 an hour to $20 an hour

Unions elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy, with rights and powers of their own.

German labor relations aren’t dead. Workers are fighting – in courts, in meat factories, in airports. These workers will not surrender. Whatever dirty tactics management throws at them – they stand firm.

Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani’s decisive win over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic Party primary has the billionaire class, large corporate real estate owners and the many in the moderate Democratic establishment freaking out.

This despite North Carolina having the lowest union density in the country. However, there have been some important organizing victories in the state in the past several years.

The pushback marks an era of more aggressive opposition to labor organizing at campuses in Southern California — one that could have implications for higher ed institutions nationwide.

Workers at Wells Fargo are organizing the first union at a major U.S. bank—in one of the least-organized industries in the country.

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”