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With the seemingly modest step of agreeing not to oppose workers' efforts to unionize, Microsoft has upended long-held assumptions about Big Tech's hostility to organized labor.

LGBTQ in Africa, Ecuador ablaze, and talk of stalemate in Myanmar

Thousands of municipal workers have won the right to form unions, but a new collective bargaining law stops short of allowing them to strike and the number of public employees now eligible to join a union falls well below what unions ultimately seek.

France Insoumise wants to change the face of parliament — including by turning hotel cleaners and bus drivers into MPs. Building a left rooted in the working class also means ensuring our parties aren’t just represented by professional politicians.

"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."

Time for a new movement to stop the nuclear arms race.

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

David Cronenberg’s latest film, Crimes of the Future, is a return to the “body horror” genre. It brings back the gross-out gore that first made his career in the 1970s — but without the thrills.

Right-wing media in lockstep with Trump’s coup, and more

In a vote of 606-104, researchers at the University of Washington have voted to unionize across all three campuses. The bargaining unit is made up of a total of 1,450 employees of the university across all research areas.The new UW Researchers United joins the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4121 alongside 100,000 academic employees at more than 40 universities and colleges across the country.