Some workers are going into debt because they are being made to pay back employers for the cost of job training if they are fired or quit.
Capitalism brings workers into competition with each other. But what especially fragments the working class is the unevenness of capitalist development across workplaces and regions.
At the convention, members of the durable reform movement Teamsters for a Democratic Union and their allies achieved constitutional amendments they’ve been seeking for decades.
In the Southwest, the US nuclear weapons program left a legacy of poisoned uranium workers and death across the Navajo Nation. Workers and communities are still seeking justice.
Members of IUE-CWA Local 84811 have launched a major campaign against the plant closing, displaying an attitude not seen nearly enough in the U.S. labor movement, which has witnessed 91,000 plant closings across the country since 1997.
Review of Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil by John D. French (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.
A coalition of gig workers and labor rights advocates are anticipating that Uber, Lyft and other companies will use their nine-figure playbook from California's Prop. 22 fight.
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