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The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing

An interview with Emma Kinema Robin LoBugilo Carolyn Jong Em Geiger Josiah Clark Jacobin
This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing

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The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Photo of the Union President speaking from the podium. Trump’s victory makes it “That much more important to come together, to organize workers, to build real power, because that’s our best offense in this moment." - Jamieson from the Huff Post.

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Why Planned Parenthood Workers Revolted Over Gaza

Nicole Froio Yes! Magazine
The Palestinian solidarity movement within Planned Parenthood is an example of how working-class power can be used to clarify connections between struggles, even when they seem to be disconnected from our own workplace, geographically or otherwise.

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Amazon Strike by the Numbers

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

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Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me

Chris Townsend Jacobin
As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.
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