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What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

Marc Kagan Convergence
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

David Bacon The Progressive
How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.

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Everyone Hates Airlines, Especially the Workers Set To Strike

Adam D. K. King Convergence
The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

Cautionary Tales From the New Left

Steve Early Convergence
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less

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Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Roosevelt Institute
In order to be effective, abundance policy must benefit and build power for working- and middle-class Americans—rather than enriching and empowering concentrated economic interests and generating populist backlash that undermines democracy.
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