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Freedom of speech doesn’t count for much if workers have to worry about being fired just for expressing a point of view that their boss doesn’t like.

Tens of thousands of union members participated in No Kings rallies across the nation.

New York City Mayor Mamdani announced that municipal workers across the city will be able to get free child care at a new center being built.

The members of No Tech For Apartheid (NOTA) advocate for their companies (mainly Google and Amazon) to divest from Israel, ICE, and military contracts.

In Northern California, 2,400 mental health providers went on strike earlier this month against medical giant Kaiser Permanente. A major point of contention is Kaiser’s efforts to replace human-provided mental health care with artificial intelligence

To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income

A.I is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it.

Meatpacking workers face an uphill battle as they fight for better conditions. Union density in the industry has fallen precipitously. Up to 90 percent of meatpacking workers belonged to unions in the postwar era, but only 15 percent did by 2019.

Artificial intelligence could reshape work, but for now a low-hire, low-fire labor market is the main impediment for young people seeking employment.

Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.