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The terms are a total victory for dockworkers and for smooth supply chain operation, as the White House faced down exorbitant shipper profits. What would Trump have done?

Rank-and-file autoworkers democratized their union, elected president Shawn Fain, and won a landmark strike. Now they will have to win local officer positions, dominated by the old guard, to hold bosses to their word and maintain a fighting union.

Workers Win $24 Wage Increase

Eleven of Impact Plastics’s workers were at the company’s Tennessee factory when Hurricane Helene hit. Two are confirmed dead, four are still missing. Workers say the company did not let them leave until it was too late.

“The USMX’s anti-worker tactics fool no one, and the ILA is serving dockers and workers everywhere by drawing a line in the sand and refusing to accept anything less than they deserve."

Vice President Kamala Harris came out in support of the nation’s striking dockworkers Wednesday, casting the work stoppage that shut down ports from Maine to Texas as a fight for “fairness.”

Tens of thousands of longshoremen at 14 ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are poised to strike early Tuesday morning if their union and employers cannot reach an agreement by midnight, which could disrupt the economy and the election.

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

"As president, he cut taxes for corporations, encouraged outsourcing, and lost nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs, including auto jobs," said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

In a special interview, UE President Carl Rosen demands an end to U.S. military aid “because our country is the one that enables Israel to do what it’s doing.”