Blockades by dockworkers stand out as one of the most concrete and disruptive forms of solidarity that workers can offer when governments refuse to act.
Days after the state’s high court OK’d city officials’ yearslong bid to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers to a Medicare Advantage plan, Mayor Adams has pulled the plug on the effort — for now.
Huerta is home now. But the fact that ICE would publicly detain someone with his visibility and institutional support simply for protesting should serve as the ultimate warning for anyone who believes in worker power.
As immigration enforcement ramps up, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union says agriculture workers across the country are afraid to show up for work – and warned that fear could impact households across the country.
Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein
The New York Times
Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, and Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, resigned their positions in the Democratic National Committee, suggesting the party is failing to expand their coalition.
Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order.
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