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On Canadian Unionism, History, and Phony Horse-Races

Jim Stanford rabble.ca
The auto industry negotiations UAW and Unifor are engaged in are distinct and complex. Ultimately, autoworkers in Canada and the US are fighting for the same things: fairness, job security, and respect after the sacrifices of the last brutal years.

Friday Nite Videos | October 13, 2023

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Trump Could Lose These Voters -- Here's Why. Spirit and Bear's Last Goodbye | Reservation Dogs. Socialism Fear-mongering Is Bananas | Robert Reich. Conservatives Want American Kids To Be Dumb. Why Your Strawberry Milk May Look Different Soon.

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .

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Mural by Diego Rivera showing workers in an automobile factory Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up

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Mexican GM Workers Vote In an Independent Union

Dan DiMaggio, Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
SINTTIA’s victory is a shot in the arm for the independent union movement in Mexico; the vote was closely followed domestically and internationally.

When the Factory Leaves Town

Jane La Tour The Indypendent
A deft telling of a Wisconsin town and its people who lost their largest employer, a General Motors auto plant, typifying the collapse of much American manufacturing over the past quarter-century. Janesville is also--ironically or not-- the home of Paul Ryan, the U.S. House GOP speaker.

Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize

Michelle Chen Dissent
The standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement, fueled by frustration with the empty promises of neoliberal “development” policies.
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