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Why a 4-Day Workweek Is on the Table for Autoworkers

Andrea Hsu NPR.org
As wild as a 4-day workweek might sound, UAW leader Shawn Fain is pushing a concept that has captured the imagination of workers all over the world, thanks to widely publicized trials. Microsoft ran a month-long pilot in Japan with positive results.

Apartheid by Another Name

Laura Burocco Il Manifesto Global
The fire in a Johannesburg building killing 73 people is the result of decades of disastrous housing policies and the criminalization of poverty in South Africa.

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18

Newspaper headline: Florida Deaths Mounting
Deadly hurricane in 1928. Slave-catchers stymied (1858). Feds' forgeries flop (1918). Deadly racist church bombing (1963). Settlers take over Cherokee Strip (1893). Thin-skinned cops get served (1994). Eugene Debs speaks truth to power (1918).

The Movement and the Mayor

Jesse Sharkey Hammer and Hope
What does it mean to have Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in office?