Global Left Midweek – December 11, 2024
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As the world churns
As the world churns
As the world churns
Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates To Challenge Both Parties
The Nation
The senator says in this exclusive interview that challengers to status quo politics can run in Democratic primaries or as independents.
How To Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation With Marshall Ganz
Nonprofit Quarterly
A lot of mobilizing is tactics in search of a strategy. There is no strategic context to it because there is no organizational venue in which that strategy is being developed.
How Black Workers Challenged the Mafia
The Forge
A story of intrigue and power involving union organizers, Black laundry workers, the Mafia, and the FBI in 1980s Detroit.
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Worker Wins: Standing Together for Their Families
AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO's latest roundup of worker wins includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life.
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What Trump’s Reelection Means for Union Workers, According to Experts
ABC News
Changes would likely make it more difficult for workers to form unions and negotiate workplace improvements, but the labor movement may withstand those headwinds since many of the factors that have driven its growth remain in place, experts said.
How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era
The Nation
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
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More Black and Latina Women Are Leading Unions — and Transforming How They Work
Associated Press
Black and Latina women are driving labor union growth in the U.S. amid a decades-long decline in membership. In 2023, Black women’s union membership rate notched a slight bump from 10.3% to 10.5%, while Latinas went up from 8.5% to 8.8%.
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Why More Doctors Are Joining Unions
Medscape
With huge shifts over the past decade in the way doctors are employed — half of all doctors now work for a health system or large medical group — the idea of unionizing is not only being explored but gaining traction within the profession.
Palestine: From Shifting the Discourse to Changing US Policy
Convergence
The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine and opens a path to forcing a change in US policy.
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