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Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

Resist Corporate Agenda, Fight for Real Solutions

Contemporary use of the term AI mystifies the technology. This effect is not accidental. It serves the interests of capital.

We cannot deny that fascism, fueled by racism and misogyny, has been leveraged to divide and weaken working people. But our movement was built to fight the forces that seek to undermine democracy and enslave the human soul.

Despite persistent fears that labor might break for former President Donald Trump, exit polling showed Vice President Kamala Harris winning voters in union households 55 to 43 percent.

Some unions are making huge efforts to talk to members about the stakes of the 2024 election. Rather than sit by while union members hear pro-Trump messages, unions like the UAW and UNITE HERE are taking leadership and engaging voters on the issues.

Just released National Labor Relations Board data shows a large increase in U.S. union elections and wins, as a three year labor movement surge continues.

Mass deportations could spike inflation, lower the GDP and lead to massive job losses for U.S.-born workers.

Founded in 1964, the CAIMAW was a militant trade union, committed to international solidarity, that pushed the Canadian labour movement into progressive places …. even if that progress came at the cost of significant animosity.

Clark Atlanta University has launched a new institute focused on labor issues and training a new generation of leaders to help Black Southern organizing and collective bargaining efforts.