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Boeing Back in Bargaining – First Time in 16 Years

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
Boeing was never cuddly, but old-timers remember a company led by engineers with an uncompromising focus on quality. In recent decades, leaders have shifted attention to stock buybacks and schemes to squeeze concessions out of workers and taxpayers.

The Most Committed Are the Uncommitted

Jeet Heer The Nation
A growing movement of “uncommitted” Democratic voters are making it impossible for the Biden White House to remain complacent about Israel’s war on Gaza.

Moving Into the Agrihood

Kirsten Lie-Nielsen Modern Farmer
Planned, farm-centered neighborhoods are on the rise in the United States, offering farm-to-table food and a strong community for residents.The Urban Land Institute considers agrihoods a possible solution to several issues in the US housing market.

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

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Supporters of striking hospital workers marching through Charleston, S.C.
Hospital Workers Win (in 1969), Virginia Racists Split Hairs (1924), Anti-Racist Education Rules (1969), Protesters Beat the Rap (1969), German Troops in Rome (1944), The Fork Not Taken (1989), An Unemployed Army (1894), Transatlantic Slave Trade

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Have Filed for a Union Election

Luis Feliz Leon Jacobin
After the UAW’s stand-up strike against the Big 3, the union pledged to embark on an aggressive campaign to organize nonunion automakers. Today, the UAW announced it is filing an election at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant.

Hollywood Unions Are Back at the Bargaining Table

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Two major strikes by Hollywood writers and actors dominated headlines last year. Only months after the strikes’ end, contract negotiations are now underway for the entertainment industry’s crew members — and the possibility of a strike is not off the