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The transition away from a carbon-based economy depends upon the ability of workers & their unions to take collective action & challenge the economic system according to new report from the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice.

Thousands of non-union auto workers are already organizing across the 10 foreign-owned transplants, including Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes, as well as in the electric vehicle sector at Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.

UAW, representing 400,000 in the US and over 580,000 retired workers, makes announcement as military operations resume

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took on gig work platforms. “We’re not against someone working [by] delivering food on a bike,” said Lula during a union event. “We’re against them not having rights."

Time to follow the containers, march inland and organize! Time to build a multi-union organizing project. Time to strategize and organize!" Read Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.

Laney Graduate School students have voted to unionize after years of advocacy, making Emory University the first private university to have a graduate-worker union in Georgia and the second in the South.

Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? Here is how we -- the Portside moderators -- see it. And how you can help Portside.

Pro-Palestine “Block the Boat” actions, where dockworkers block the transport of arms to Israel, have proliferated in recent years. Recalling actions against apartheid South Africa, they’re an effective way for labor to oppose Israel’s war on Gaza.

A group of Google contractors have successfully voted to unionize. The decision classifies Google as a “joint employer” to staffing firm Accenture’s employees who work on Google’s content that includes Search and Bard.

A handful of Wells Fargo workers in Alaska and New Mexico are breaking new ground for the labor movement.