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This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles. But it could be more than that. It might also be an opportunity for allies to begin to build a solidarity machine.

Despite the high turnover, at Amazon, in charter schools, in restaurants, and among student workers, unions are developing strategies to organize high-turnover workplaces.

Two key Democratic constituencies — the young and the religiously unobservant — have substantially increased as a share of the electorate. This shift is striking.

The company's insistence on separate contracts for more than 300 organized stores has made the process unworkable, union president says.

Campaign group says plastics are incompatible with circular economy as countries prepare for treaty talks

"The work we've done over the last five months will make a generational impact on our state—it will lower costs, improve lives, and cut child poverty," said Gov. Tim Walz.

Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal.

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For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.