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Tidbits – Sept 26 – Reader Comments: Truth About Springfield and Haitian Immigrants; Divided Labor Ranks and Elections; Choices and Profiles in Political Cowardice; Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Are a Further Escalation — U.S. Must End Military Aid Now

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Reader Comments: Truth About Springfield and Haitian Immigrants; On Divided Labor Union ranks and Elections; Choices and Profiles in Political Cowardice; Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Are a Further Escalation — U.S. Must End Military Aid Now; more....

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U.S. Labor’s Crusade Against “Red” Unions

Jonathan Kissam United Electrical,Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
In Blue Collar Empire, Jeff Schuhrke documents how many AFL and CIO leaders participated in witch hunts against UE and other unions in the U.S., and actively conspired with the U.S. government to undermine militant unions around the world.

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The Stakes of the 2024 Election

UE General Executive Board UE News
Given who will be on the ballot in November, we urge all working people to hold their nose and vote for Biden, in order to live to fight another day — the cost of re-electing Trump would be too high.

Tidbits – Feb. 1, 2024 – Reader Comments: Chicago Now Largest City To Call for Ceasefire; Hawks Demand War With Iran; Texas Gov Abbott Encouraging Criminal White Extremists; New – Family Budget Calculator; Help UE Preserve the Solidarity Mural; More

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Reader Comments: Chicago Now Largest City to Call for Ceasefire; Hawks Demand War With Iran; Texas Gov Abbott Encouraging Criminal White Extremists; New - Family Budget Calculator; Help UE Preserve the Solidarity Mural; Cartoons; more....

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Stanford Graduate Workers Unionize

Anne Li The Stanford Daily
“We’re riding a wave of graduate worker unionization,” Johnston said. “We hope to be the next part of the wave that pushes more grad workers to do this for themselves.”

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Wabtec Train Manufacturing Workers Are on Strike

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Workers at the Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, have walked off the job. Their demands get to the heart of bigger questions about the nature of work and the role workers can play in fights like climate change.

Remembering Ralph Fasanella

Jonathan Kissam United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle

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Socialists Are Trying To Revive the American Labor Movement

Gabriel Winant and Teagan Harris Jacobin
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.
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