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The riskiest course is to stay the course.

Following recent layoffs, an Alamo Drafthouse in Colorado has authorized a strike.

Colorado Kroger workers are striking this week, and 130,000 union grocery workers are bargaining contracts this year. Reformers see it as a chance to transform the UFCW from America’s largest private sector union into a fighting force.

5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.

Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.

Tens of thousands of longshoremen at 14 ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are poised to strike early Tuesday morning if their union and employers cannot reach an agreement by midnight, which could disrupt the economy and the election.