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The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters

Sarah Stillman The New Yorker
Truck of laborers chasing a cyclone.
A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.

Alabama Judge Orders Stop to Picketing at Warrior Met Coal

William Thornton al.com
“The Constitution of the United States protects American citizens’ rights to stand on the side of a road and call a scab a scab,” United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts said in response to a circuit court restraining order.

3 Starbucks Set for Vote on Union

Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Labor board approves elections for Starbucks workers in Buffalo, N.Y.

Is This a Strike Wave?

Nelson Lichtenstein DISSENT
Workers holding signs that say:  BCTGM On Strike
We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.