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My book is quenching the throats of those who are sick of seeing the wealthy and powerful credited with everything good in the county and the working families castigated for their backwardness by the privileged members of both political parties.

"This administration wants to break the spirit of working people in this country, but we will not be broken," said National Nurses United.

The federal work force, like much of the country, is in a do-or-die moment. As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) Monday morning to discuss Mamdani’s plans for free, universal childcare at the District Council 37 union headquarters in downtown Manhattan.

Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.

Deporting immigrants will lead to job loss for immigrants - but as Ben Zipperer shows in work for the Economic Policy Institute, almost as many native-born workers could lose their jobs as deported immigrants as industries contract.

The longtime farm labor activist gets candid about the fallout from Trump’s deportation efforts.

Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.

Three programs that train occupational health experts and study worker safety for the state’s most dangerous jobs face an uncertain future.

“This is truly a struggle between Wall Street and Main Street. It’s as simple as that,” APWU President Dimondstein said. “Wells Fargo is Wall Street. Wells Fargo wants to steal what belongs to the people of the country."