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How a Hot Shop Burns: The UMD Graduate Labor Union Card Campaign

Sam Dee Washington Socialist
I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

The New Labor Organizing Model of EWOC

Eric Blanc Jacobin
Interest in unions and workplace organizing is high, but proactive workers have few opportunities to launch their own organizing drives. The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is trying to change that.

Marathon Oil Teamsters Strike

Keith Brower Brown, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
Marathon workers work four 12-hour days on day shift, take four days off, and then work four days on night shift. “There’s not a doctor in the world that would say that’s a good schedule,” said steward Gino Maniaci.