Portside

Workers have walked out of six apple packinghouses in Washington State. They demand safer working conditions and an extra $2 an hour in hazard pay.

Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe.

This week the COVID-related strike in Washington state’s Yakima Valley quadrupled in size, as workers walked out at three more apple packinghouses with two main demands for safer working conditions and an extra $2 an hour in hazard pay.

When it comes to the Pentagon and the CEOs running a large part of the arms industry, examples abound of them asking what they can do to help themselves. Continuing to prioritize the U.S. military will further weaken the USA public health system.

Andrea Circle Bear, 30, had been sentenced to 26 months in federal prison on a drug charge.

Death from Above, tar sands, political class, super rich, Occupy, Troy Davis

Industry groups vow to expose union-backed worker centers. House Republicans are beginning to scrutinize the worker centers as well.

In short, it is just too profitable to give up.