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The fight for Medicare for All is one of the most important in the United States today. And despite the many horrors of 2020, the movement demanding an end to our privatized health system actually made some headway this year.

“The proposal to reduce the 60-hour overtime threshold threatened to regulate New York’s family farms out of existence,”

There is work to do—and people who want to work.

FedEx workers at the Memphis World Hub said they were pressured to work faster than they felt was safe.

Nelson is emblematic of the new rising labor movement—one increasingly defined, unlike that of the past, by women and so-called women’s work.

David Bacon remembers Fred Hirsch.

Ultimately the effort will require the dovetailing of internal worker organization at multiple facilities—like what Amazonians United is doing—with the power and resources of one or several national unions, like RWDSU or the Teamsters, for instance.

Disasters, missed opportunities, and a few bright spots in 2020.

The working-class invented Christmas.

If you’re a Christmas movie/work freak like me, enjoy The Holiday Movies that Made Us and think about the thousands of unsung underlings who work behind the scenes.