Dispatches From the Culture Wars – Resistance Lessons
Portside
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Massachusetts Ballot Measure Criticized for Creating Gig Worker ‘Company Unions’
The American Prospect
Uber and Lyft are not opposing Question 3, which would give some bargaining rights to drivers but keep them as independent contractors without full labor protection.
A Union of Their Own -the Most Militantly Feminist Union
The American Prospect
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union. Every officer comes from the ranks of working flight attendants, there is no gap between the lived experience of the rank and file and union leadership.
Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers
In These Times
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson on abortion rights, building union density, and the sham of “corporate benevolence”.
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The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized and Made Labor History
teenvogue.com
As the economy opened up to women a half century ago, one in three working women was an office employee. As the clerical workforce grew by leaps and bounds, so did a sense of injustice among the women, leading to the founding of the 9 to 5 Movement.
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Delta Flights Attendants Race To Unionize: ‘We’re the People Behind the Profits’
The Guardian
Workers say they just want a fair deal on pay, conditions and schedules at an airline has long resisted union efforts.
Flight Attendants Fighting Back
The New Yorker
Sara Nelson, the head of the flight attendants’ union, leads her members through turbulent times and mounts a major organizing drive at Delta.
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Flight-Attendants-Union Leader Nelson May Oppose AFL-CIO Head Shuler
The Chief
While Ms. Shuler's moving up the AFL-CIO hierarchy has been the favored route to the organization's presidency, Ms. Nelson will be counting on her elevated profile as an outspoken leader of a militant union if she runs against her.
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Sara Nelson, the Labor Movement Leader We Needed Most
JEZEBEL
Nelson is emblematic of the new rising labor movement—one increasingly defined, unlike that of the past, by women and so-called women’s work.
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Why Unions Are the Key to Passing a Green New Deal
GIZMODO
A key way to build broader support for the Green New Deal among organized labor, some labor experts say, is to help workers change who head the Laborers, Mine Workers and Electrical Workers unions, which oppose the Green New Deal.
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