CEOs are promising to take better care of workers with stronger benefits and higher pay. But as a union leader, I know firsthand that workers can't take these promises for granted.
Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.
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With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.
The United Auto Workers said on Sunday that a nationwide strike will begin before midnight. The move comes after the union and General Motors failed to agree on a new contract.
If Lightfoot wanted to plug the budget hole without cutting services and freezing hiring, the money is there. But don’t count on it—not without a fight.
Joe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.
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The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.
In an era of revived US strike activity, what makes the NYNEX dispute most worthy of study is the central issue involved: health care cost shifting.
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