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How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power

Shaun Richman In These Times
During modern times, corporations threaten the jobs of pro-union workers in over half of all union elections—and follow through on the threat one-third of the time. In between, bosses have resorted to spies and frame-ups, physical violence, court injunctions, private armies of strikebreakers, racist appeals and immigrant exploitation.

Seward Coop Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize

Barb Kuzera Workday Magazine
Workers at Seward Coop three locations in Minneapolis are celebrating their decision Thursday to join United Food & Commercial Workers Local 653. Ninety-four percent of those who voted in the election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board supported union representation.

D.C. Charter Schools Get First Union

Kate McGee WAMU American University Radio
Teachers at Cesar Chavez Prep will be the first teachers at a charter school in the District to unionize.

Greenfield Nurses to Go on Strike

MNA Massachusetts Nurses Association
As a result nurses are working endless additional shifts usually without rest. In fact, 3,940 times in the past 12 months nurses had to work for longer than 12 hours because there was no one to relieve them.

Jesse Winchester | Step by Step

Song by Jesse Winchester, from The Wire, Season 1. Winchester opposed the Vietnam War, moved to Canada in 1967, and after a Presidential amnesty in 1977 resettled in the United States.