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Hawaii hotel workers ended a 51-day strike Tuesday with the ratification of a new contract that would bring them up to $6.13 an hour in pay and benefit hikes over four years.

Sports unions employee a 'empowerment unionism' strategy that sees the contract as a basic framework that sets some minimum thresholds and establishes a procedure for resolving disputes. Workers are free to negotiate their own salaries.

What happens to worker power when the most pressing struggle in workers’ lives isn't against the boss but against addiction?

The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract.

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?

Congress should propose a bill that would grant a pathway for TPS (Temporary Protected Status) recipients to remain in the country permanently.

The union will provide the turkey, potatoes and gravy, and, strikers will bring in side dishes for a Thanksgiving Day meal in front of the Moana Surfrider Hotel.

The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.

We can move our country forward by moving it to the left. The Resistance and the gains in the recent elections are dramatic evidence that something fundamental is happening. Portside will continue to do our part. We ask for your help once a year.

Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.