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On Remembering Stanley Aronowitz

Steve Early New Politics
New working class heroes, not blinded by 21st century false promises, who hope to build better organizations from the ashes of the old -- should check out the writings of a deceased 88-year old New Yorker who knew what he was talking about.

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Playing the Capitalist Game: Heads They Win, Tails You Lose

Martin Hart-Landsberg Monthly Review
It’s an attempt to recreate the power dynamics of the employer-dominated company towns of old—with workers unable to change employers if they want to continuing working in the same industry.

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Massachusetts Nurse Strikers Aren’t Blinking

Sam Bishop Labor Notes
The nonprofit research group Good Jobs First found that Tenet had been fined at least $1.8 billion since the St. Vincent nurses’ last strike in 2000.

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Amazon? There Has to be a Better Way

Wade Rathke The Stansbury Forum
Jeff Bezos may be going to the moon soon, but down here on terra firma unions are trying to organize and protect Amazon workers, and we seem to be the ones lost in space.
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