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Richmond Progressive Alliance’s Lessons for Organizers

Steve Early Jacobin
It doesn’t often make national headlines, but the city of Richmond, Ca. has been home to a successful progressive political reform project in recent years. Here are ten lessons for other municipal reformers from the Richmond Progressive Alliance

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The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers

Laura Flaunders and Maximilion Alvarez The Nation
Split screen - photo of a man next to a bulletin board with info about project 2025 James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, explains what the “bleak” world of labor under Project 2025 would look like.

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Union Elections Surge in a Hopeful Sign for Labor

Dave Jamieson HUFFPOST
On Tuesday, federal officials reported a 29% jump in union election petitions during the most recent fiscal year, rising from 2,593 in 2023 to 3,286 in 2024.

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Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers

Mark Levinson New Labor Forum
Bidenomics is a break with four decades of policy that disempowered workers. This record was obscured by Biden’s inability to explain his accomplishments. Undoing neoliberalism will take time but can happen with a revitalized labor movement.

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How Climate Change Threatens Workers

Jordan Barab Combined Space
Photo of the outside of a factory building after being devastated by the hurricane. Worker risk is also a function of workers’ power in the workplace — or lack thereof. Where they work, the conditions they work under and their ability to protect themselves against obvious threats make workers more vulnerable than average citizens.

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Boeing Strike Continues

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
On Sept. 23, Boeing announced a new contract offer, but did so in a press release and directly to members instead of to their union in bargaining. Union members said the proposal was inadequate, and disrespectful in the way it bypassed the union.
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