Media Bits and Bytes – January 10, 2023
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Making tech work for the workers’ movement
Making tech work for the workers’ movement
Making tech work for the workers’ movement
Global Left Midweek – Mideast Focus
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There is a global left — and it's challenging a global system
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US Workers Need a Federal Paid Sick Leave Guarantee
Jacobin
Workers nationwide lack a federal guarantee of paid sick leave in the United States. Establishing a federal paid sick leave guarantee would improve the lives of all American workers — railworkers included.
Enola Holmes 2 and the Real Life History of the Match Girls’ Strike
Nerdist
This is a story about industrial corruption and the control of workers in that time… the late 19th century was an extraordinary period for the birth of the Union Movement and of people standing up for their rights.
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Republicans Want Working-Class Voters — Without Actually Supporting Workers
The Guardian
GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize.
Tidbits – Sept. 22, 2022 – Reader Comments: Kidnapping Immigrants; Railroad Workers, Railroad Profits; Religion; Ukraine War; Sweden; My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich; Frank Emspak, Troublemaker; the Worker-Led Upsurge; More..
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Reader Comments: Kidnapping Immigrants; Railroad Workers and Railroad Profits; Religion; Ukraine War; Sweden; My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich; New Book: Frank Emspak, Troublemaker; The Worker-Led Upsurge: Amazon and Starbucks; more
Global Left Midweek – September 7, 2022
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News and analyses from and about social movements, political parties and unifying activists
Global Left Midweek – No Easy Way Out
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World crises demand groundbreaking strategies
Global Left Midweek – May Day 2022
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Protests and a major conference of Latin American social movements mark the world’s workers’ own day
A Message From President Chris Smalls
Amazon Labor Union
The founder and president of the ALU wants workers to know his long history of dedication to Amazon and the workers, what has brought him to be leading this campaign to build the first Amazon labor union in the country on behalf of all Amazon workers
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