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Teachers Are Striking for More Than Just Pay Raises

Courtney E. Martin Vox
What Oakland’s teachers union reveals about labor strikes in 2023: "Common good" bargaining--focusing not only on pay and benefits but also issues like reparations, housing, and transportation--is offering a fresh strategy for other unions.

A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?

Sam Pizzigati CounterPunch
“The company has promised to create 2,500 new jobs that it says will pay an average annual wage of just $45,000 a year,” Good Jobs First points out, “while reaping subsidies of $3.4 million per job.”

Sexual Rights and Emancipation in Cuba

Mariela Castro Espín GRANMA
The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture