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The Long Road to Immigration Reform

By Oscar Chacon and Amy Shannon The Nation
Change won't come to America's broken immigration system from policymakers. It will come from organizers.

Union Workers Rally in Nashvile, TN

By Max Smith The Tennessean
“We have come together to call upon our elected leaders to change your current, off-the-rails trajectory and make the interests of Tennessee working people your top priority. Our coalition's response is simple: put the people first.”

Fat Cats At Queens Library: Workers Suffer As Boss Lives In Luxury

Gregory N. Heires Public Employee Press
There are major problems at the Queens Borough Public Library which is one of the largest public libraries in the country. The President and CEO is paid $391,000 plus major perks. In the past 5 years he has reduced the staff by 130 positions through attrition and 44 layoffs. This has become major news in the New York City media as well as the national library press.

Snooping

Mike Luckovich amuniversal.com

No Choice

Editorial The New York Times

This Stormy Weather is Headed Our Way

Barry Dunning Working Life
A decision in favour of Pamela Harris in the Harris v. Quinn case before the U.S. Supreme Court would seriously impact the quality of care provided to tens of thousands of seniors and people with disabilities who use state-supported home care services. It would do this by ruling the collective agreement covering more than 27,000 workers unconstitutional. More broadly, a ruling that the current system is unconstitutional threatens the future of collective bargaining.

Salt of the Earth: Made of Labour, By Labour, For Labour

Sukhdev Sandhu The Guardian
Sixty years ago a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of US workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American left