Workers have a long and storied history of resisting attempts to pit them against each other. We found examples specific to Minnesota’s labor movement, which has a militant legacy that can be learned from today.
Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.
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.
Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers AND Starbucks unions strike ahead of holiday.
If Trump wants to prove that he is really on the side of American workers, however, he’s going to have to do more than one cabinet nomination.
The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain.
The national leadership may have snubbed her—but Teamsters in the swing states that will decide the election are backing her all the way.
Harris will almost certainly win the labor vote, but what will really matter is Trump's ability to cut into her margins with appeals to working-class voters on issues like immigration and trade.
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