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The Outcome in Arizona

Eric Blanc,Rebecca Garelli, Noah Karvelis, Dylan Wegela Jacobin
After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

Workers Memorial Day Honors Lives Lost on the Job

Heather Wolford Cumberland Times-News
Every day 150 workers die from a workplace fatality or a fatal illness or injury they contracted on the job. If that was a disease or if that was one attack, people would demand action. Instead, it is ignored.

Harvard Will Bargain With Grad Union

SHERA S. AVI-YONAH and MOLLY C. MCCAFFERTY The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate student union, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday.

Arizona Teachers Stage Strike!

Jonah Furman Labor Notes
Two weeks before the vote, organizers had recorded 110,000 people participating in walk-ins in 1,100 schools. A petition supporting AEU’s five demands garnered another 35,000 signatures. In the end, 57,000 teachers and support staff cast votes on the walkout, with 78 percent in favor.

“They Have Forgotten the Lessons of Rana Plaza”

Tula Connell Solidarity Center AFL-CIO
Five years ago, he multistory Rana Plaza building, which housed garment factories outside Dhaka in Bangladesh, pancaked from structural defects that had been identified the day before. 1,134 garment workers were killed and thousands more injured in Bangladesh.