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Can’t Pay Won’t Pay

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.

This Week in People’s History, Sept 4–10

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Photo of workers and supervisors in a munitions factory
Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, Part 1: 2014–2016

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
UTLA’s transformation story surfaces critical lessons that respond to the most important question facing the labor movement today: How do we ensure that the recent years of labor upsurge across economic sectors becomes durable, transformative power?

’The New Popular Front Is Ready To Govern

Lucie Castets Morning Star
Open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component parties.

Seafood Is Getting Riskier To Eat Due to Climate Change

Stacey Leasca Food & Wine
High heat can make seafood more dangerous for human consumption.
Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.

The State of the Unions?

Chris Bohner Radish Research
A close look at data suggests unions could be doing a lot more to organize and build the labor movement in this moment.