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Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes

Noam Scheiber The New York Times
After the stunning victory at Amazon by a little-known independent union that didn’t exist 18 months ago, organized labor has begun to ask itself an increasingly pressing question: Does the labor movement need to get more disorganized?

When Boomers Come Together

Bill Mckibben The Progressive
Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political and economic influence to fight for a working climate and a working democracy.

CP Lockout Ends but Business Propaganda Continues

Jeremy Appel RankandFile.CA
When is a lockout a strike? When corporate media says so. The corporate media will always defer to corporate interests because those are the interests that pay its bill. As a result, labour concerns are usually either downplayed or ignored. 

Friday Nite Videos -- June 24, 2016

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Bernie Sanders Is Not Dropping Out Tonight. Rep. Debbie Dingell's Sitdown Speech. What Would It Take for Donald Trump to Lose Your Vote? Boogie Blues on a Liverpool Street. John Oliver | Brexit.