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Why Influencers Like Jake Paul Are Taking Over Boxing

Jack Bedrosian Jacobin
Influencers like Jake Paul have risen to prominence by fighting athletes who want an alternative to exploitative bodies like the UFC. His pro-Trumpism and call for a union to protect the rights of fighters represent the contradictions within combat

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Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?

Steve Early Labor Notes
Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

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Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

Je Siqueira Jacobin
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.

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Union Elections Surge in a Hopeful Sign for Labor

Dave Jamieson HuffPost
On Tuesday, federal officials reported a 29% jump in union election petitions during the most recent fiscal year, rising from 2,593 in 2023 to 3,286 in 2024.

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How a Hot Shop Burns: The UMD Graduate Labor Union Card Campaign

Sam Dee Washington Socialist
I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

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A Thousand Tennessee Autoworkers Just Joined the UAW

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Workers at Ultium’s Spring Hill electric vehicle plant, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, have unionized. It’s the latest case of the UAW’s Big Three strike bearing fruit.
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