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Cornell Graduate Students United Wins Unionization Election

Jonathan Mong and Matthew Kiviat Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell graduate students have won their unionization election by a vote of 1,873 to 80, and will federate as Cornell Graduate Students United — an organization fighting for the rights of graduate workers — under the national United Electrical, Radio

How a Fight Over Two Jobs Pushed the Dockworker Union Into Bankruptcy

Ronald D. White Los Angeles Times
We intend to use the Chapter 11 process to implement a plan that will bring this matter to resolution and ensure that our Union continues to do its important work for our members and the community,” said ILWU President Willie Adams.

Steward’s Corner: How AA Flight Attendants Scored a Huge Strike Vote

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Union flight attendants at American Airlines recently delivered a strike authorization vote of 99%, with 93% turnout. The staggering total was the result of not only a membership itching to walk out but a campaign that engaged rank-and-file members.

Trade Unionist Harry Bridges Remade the Labor Movement

Gabriel Winant Jacobin
Radical labor leader Harry Bridges helped create one of the US's most powerful unions, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Its founding principles were anti-racism and worker autonomy, which he learned from rank-and-file dockworkers and

50 Reasons Why Portland Teachers Are Striking

Mary Ellen Flannery NEA Today
There are more than 4,500 educators and 45,000 students in Portland Public Schools (PPS) in Oregon —and that adds up to about 50,000 reasons why Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) members are going on strike.