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Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.
“Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale we have not seen in recent memory,” tweeted Independent Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on October 25.
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Rank-and-file workers are finally taking back their unions, and strikes are spreading across the country as a result.
Last year, the number of workers who participated in significant strikes soared to nearly 500,000, its highest point since the mid-1980s, while the total duration of such strikes reached a 15-year high.
The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.
49,000 United Auto Worker members went on strike on Sept. 16 against General Motors, in the largest walkout there since 2007. While most plants are in the Midwest, they are also in Texas, Kentucky, Kansas, Tennessee and Missouri.
Since 1919 Gary has had a tradition of interracial organizing while also being a center for black movements and black power activism.
GM cuts healthcare benefits for workers, as strike enters 4th day. This induces workers to get more angry. GM thinks this will scare them or get them to rethink the cost of their benefits. It's going to backfire. It's quick, rash and insensitive.
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