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I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

Even as Donald Trump seeks to disavow Project 2025, he and the rightwing effort’s authors have voiced similarly hostile plans for the US’s 2 million-plus federal employees – to replace many of them with political appointees.

Uber and Lyft are not opposing Question 3, which would give some bargaining rights to drivers but keep them as independent contractors without full labor protection.

Interest in unions and workplace organizing is high, but proactive workers have few opportunities to launch their own organizing drives. The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is trying to change that.

A year after the UAW's historic strike against the Big 3 Automakers, the union has tried to use the momentum to write its next success story in the South. However, it's getting pushback.

Marathon workers work four 12-hour days on day shift, take four days off, and then work four days on night shift. “There’s not a doctor in the world that would say that’s a good schedule,” said steward Gino Maniaci.

But local governments - cities and counties - are stepping up to advocate for workers.

“The caregivers of 1199SEIU stand in solidarity with the Haitian community in the face of vicious, racist attacks by Donald Trump and JD Vance.”

Harris gains support of many Teamster Joint Councils and Locals representing over 511,000 members in only a few hours after the union said it would endorse no candidate. The teamsters membership is 1,300,000.

Adjusted for inflation, men who work full-time year-round saw their wages go up 3%, while women who work full-time year-round only saw their wages go up 1.5%.