Michigan: Largest Fast Food Strike Yet

Ned Resnikoff MSNBC
As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

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Learning From the 1990s Labor Party

An interview with Mark Dudzic Carl Rosen Jenny Brown Howard Botwinick Jacobin
As capital ratcheted up its assault on labor in the 1990s and Democrats embraced a neoliberal agenda, some labor unions launched their own political party.

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Unpacking Trump’s Attack on Federal Sector Unions

Nicholas Handler Lawfare
Rendering collective bargaining inapplicable to the vast majority of federal workers, combined with the administration’s other attacks on the civil service, would leave the federal workforce in its weakest position in a century.

CTU Members Ratify New Contract With 97% Approval

Nader Issa, Sarah Karp | WBEZ and Michael Puente | WBEZ Chicago Sun-Times
The contract is the CTU’s first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class size limits, gives pay raises and could add hundreds of new staff members.

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Member-Run Unions

United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) UE News
A UE Guide to Democratic Practice

UAW President Shawn Fain on Why He Supports Tariffs

Shawn Fain, David Sirota Jacobin
In an interview, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain argues that the era of “free-trade” deals like NAFTA has been a disaster for the US working class and that smart tariffs can help bring back good auto jobs.
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