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Teachers picketed outside every Oakland district school, turning away many scabs and shutting down classes. Seeing students and parents lined up behind educators, district officials backed away from their attempt to impose harsh contract terms.

Image-conscious global brand operating in a repressive environment seeks to downplay workers’ complaints. No surprise. But this story has a couple of twists. For one, the repressive environment is the state of Virginia.

As technicians at cable giant Comcast celebrated a rare organizing victory in New Jersey last month, fellow techs in Ohio and New York reported a more familiar result: two more campaigns done in by Comcast’s anti-union machine.

Thousands gathered in Manhattan April 29 calling for good jobs and accountability from Wall Street. Four entire four blocks were full of union members, community and housing activists, and retirees with signs declaring “Make Wall Street Pay.”

Just a few miles from Nike’s global headquarters in Oregon last night, two Honduran workers revealed Nike’s family-destroying labor practices.

Labor organizing requires grueling hours on the road, which is why most of us have become devout podcast subscribers. Built on a solid reputation of entertaining and nuanced storytelling, "This American Life" is often at the top of most organizers’ playlists. But as organizers we still remain...