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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.

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.

The SACP calls for working-class unity and “patriotic and left popular fronts” to challenge big business oligarchs, reverse their influence in the state apparatus and put South Africa on the road to economic, social and green transformations.

Felony disenfranchisement laws are rooted in the Jim Crow era and were implemented to suppress Black electoral power

In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved.

The Poor People's Campaign demands a “Third Reconstruction” to shift national priorities and rebuild the economy from the bottom up.

In light of recent revelations about the Martin family’s political activities, chefs are looking for alternatives to Martin’s products known for their association with Shake Shack, which uses them at locations around the world.

The Vermont independent isn't buying the happy talk from a party still talking up a pre-midterm turnaround. And he has a prescription to avoid it.

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.

The former Nintendo of America boss thinks companies need to ‘address’ and ‘embrace’ unions