Media Bits and Bytes – June 10, 2025
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The World’s Most Dangerous Country for Trade Unionists
BBC
The Labour Ministry says that since the early 1970s, well over 3,000 trade unionists have been murdered in Colombia.
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Jennifer Abruzzo Wants Workers To Fight Back
Workday Magazine
A conversation with the former head of the National Labor Relations Board fired President Donald Trump.
A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story
UE News
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.
How Unions Can Protect Immigrants
Dissent Magazine
An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.
“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
The Intercept
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
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Learning From the 1990s Labor Party
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
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.
Collateral Damage: How Trump Is Hollowing Out the Black Middle Class
Capital & Main
The president has gone nuclear against federal union jobs — historically African Americans’ ladder to economic equality.
CTU Members Ratify New Contract With 97% Approval
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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