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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.

Tidbits – April 7, 2022 – Reader Comments: Ukraine War; Peace Movement; Starbucks; Supreme Court and Gerrymandering; Huge Union Win at MIT; Red Scare; Anti-Corporate Radio Is Everywhere; Labor Against War in Ukraine; Walden Bello; Announcements;

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Reader Comments: Ukraine War; Peace Movement; Starbucks; Supreme Court and Gerrymandering; Huge Union Win at MIT; Red Scare; Anti-Corporate Radio is Everywhere; Labor Against War in Ukraine; Walden Bello; Announcements; more...

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MIT Graduate Students Vote To Form Union

Max Larkin WBUR NEWS
Nearly 2,900 of over 3,800 eligible voters at MIT turned up to vote this week, with 66% putting their support behind unionization. They will be affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE).
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