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In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections

Ben Wray Jacobin
Across Europe, platform workers have won a series of court cases ruling that they are employees, not self-employed. Moves for new EU-wide legislation have faced serious resistance from lobbyists but now look set to deliver some new protections.

Working People Need Congress To Fund Mass Transit

John Samuelsen and John Costa Newsweek
As we celebrate Rosa Parks' birthday, it is an ideal day to promote the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act and urge our elected representatives in Congress to pass it.

The UAW Is Organizing the South

John Nichols Nation
The union announced that more than half the workers at a VW plant in Tennessee have signed union cards. And it’s vowing that this is only the beginning.