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September 7, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 7, 2023 – Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Big 3; 88% People Under 30 View Unions Favorably; Solidarity Rally With UAW; JOIN MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS – Sept 17

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Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro Case; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Ford and Big 3; 88% people under 30 view unions favorably; Solidarity Rally with UAW; JOIN THE MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS -- September 17

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September 5, 2023

Union and Queer

Jim Grossfeld The American Prospect

The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.

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July 18, 2023

Hollywood on the Picket Line – 5 Unsung Films That Put America’s Union History on the Silver Screen

Peter Dreier The Conversation

The SAG-AFTRA strike comes at a time when polls suggest unions are more popular in the U.S. than at any time since 1965, and the labor movement is experiencing a resurgence of organizing. These 5 films reveal some of the history of this organizing.

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July 10, 2023

‘Working for Scraps’: Columbia Waffle House Workers Strike Over Low Pay, Workplace Safety

Hannah Wade Post & Courier Columbia

Waffle House workers launched a three-day strike in South Carolina in response to low pay, harsh working conditions and staff shortages. They are supported by the Union of Southern Service Workers.

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June 29, 2023

Martin Luther King Understood Solidarity

Michael K. Honey Jacobin

Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that he and the freedom movement endured. It largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor

June 22, 2023

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better

Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times

Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike July 31. The vote doesn’t mean that a walkout is inevitable. The vote is a signal UPS management ignores at its peril. Most important, which side of the scale the Biden administration places its thumb.

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May 25, 2023

Hot Labor Summer

Bill Lipton The Forge

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.

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May 23, 2023

Americans Love Unions. The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Gutting Them

Joe Mayall Balls and Strikes

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

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May 15, 2023

A Labor Strategy Beyond Elections

Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn Asian Labour Review

On May 14th, voters in Thailand voted in a new ruling coalition, against the ruling military dictatorship. This article, written by Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn before the election, offers ideas for a potential labor movement revival.

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March 30, 2023

Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood

Paul Buhle Portside

Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts the controversies that came with his rise in the peace movement of the middle 1960s

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