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Members of IUE-CWA Local 84811 have launched a major campaign against the plant closing, displaying an attitude not seen nearly enough in the U.S. labor movement, which has witnessed 91,000 plant closings across the country since 1997.

Production workers for Great Lakes Brewing Company, the oldest and largest craft brewery in Ohio, signed union cards at the United Steelworkers union hall Sunday in a declaration of their intent to unionize.

Review of Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil by John D. French (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

A coalition of gig workers and labor rights advocates are anticipating that Uber, Lyft and other companies will use their nine-figure playbook from California's Prop. 22 fight.

Some meatpacking plant workers found themselves at the intersection of two of the riskiest settings during the pandemic: correctional facilities and meatpacking plants.

Nikole Hannah-Jones declines tenure offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University.

In the coming years, Amazon will most likely become the largest private employer in the United States — perhaps even the world. It already employs nearly a million U.S. workers and indirectly commands many more thousands of contracted drivers.

Striking Alabama Miners Call Out NYC Hedge Funds for Bringing in Scabs

But why does the capitalist want to hire workers? Because by doing so, he gains control over the worker’s capacity in the workplace.