Over months of contract bargaining, Harvard reached common ground with the union on some issues. But over the course of a recent strike, the university began to lash out in punitive and ominous ways.
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The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.
Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.
GM cuts healthcare benefits for workers, as strike enters 4th day. This induces workers to get more angry. GM thinks this will scare them or get them to rethink the cost of their benefits. It's going to backfire. It's quick, rash and insensitive.
With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.
The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.
Mercy says nurses returned Thursday, local UAW says informational meetings now are Friday and Saturday
The Volkswagen plant would boost UAW's flagging membership, way down because of plant closings and automation. It represented more than 1 million people at auto assembly plants in the 1980s, but only 155,000 at GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler today.
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