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September 14, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: March to End Fossil Fuels - THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike - What You Can Do; Abortion Rights Attacks on All Workers; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons; more....

September 7, 2023

Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers

Natascha Elena Uhlmann interviews Sara Nelson In These Times

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson on abortion rights, building union density, and the sham of “corporate benevolence”.

September 7, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 7, 2023 – Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Big 3; 88% People Under 30 View Unions Favorably; Solidarity Rally With UAW; JOIN MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS – Sept 17

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Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro Case; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Ford and Big 3; 88% people under 30 view unions favorably; Solidarity Rally with UAW; JOIN THE MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS -- September 17

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July 27, 2023

Ernst Bloch: Looking Backward, Looking Forward in the Fight Against Fascism

By Kurt Stand* Socialist Forum

The German Marxist philosopher's work can help us understand fascism and how to fight it. Ernst Bloch was a critical Marxist thinker, a close supporter (though not a member) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from the 1920s through the 1950s.

July 25, 2023

Inside the Teamsters’ Historic Contract at UPS

Luis Feliz Leon The American Prospect

The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.

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June 29, 2023

Martin Luther King Understood Solidarity

Michael K. Honey Jacobin

Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that he and the freedom movement endured. It largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor

June 22, 2023

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better

Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times

Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike July 31. The vote doesn’t mean that a walkout is inevitable. The vote is a signal UPS management ignores at its peril. Most important, which side of the scale the Biden administration places its thumb.

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June 18, 2023

Architects Are Starting To See Themselves As Workers — And Organizing Unions

Chris Beck Jacobin

Though architects have long been seen as privileged creative professionals, they are finding themselves in increasingly de-skilled and exploitative work environments. It’s no wonder that they’re starting to unionize.

May 1, 2023

Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions?

Paige Oamek The Nation

For May Day, we talked to young workers—in tech, retail, food service, and more—about what brought them to the labor movement. Those under 35 overwhelmingly approve of organized labor—77 percent.

April 28, 2023

America’s Workplace Safety Crisis

Terri Gerstein The American Prospect

Today is Worker's Memorial Day. Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.

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