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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. 

Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.

One parallel between Syria and Ukraine which works all too well is that modern urban warfare everywhere inevitably involves heavy civilian casualties

Massive coverage of the war in Ukraine does not offend advertisers, while the corporate war on consumers directly involves corporate advertisers.

All-powerful for-profit utilities have apparently bribed/persuaded Florida officials to crush what they consider to be a developing threat - solar power

A majority of Harrisburg Area Community College faculty members in Pennsylvania have voted yes to forming a union.

Economic collapse brings mass unrest in Sri Lanka, and social ferment brings a new kind of political leader in Colombia

"We are here to tell the stock exchange and Wall Street to stop trading our lives, that we want living wages and healthcare and clean air and voting rights."

Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

In a Wednesday job posting, Starbucks said it was looking for a director of corporate counsel for labor with experience in "strike contingency planning."