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Frito-Lay Forced Overtime Frustrations Not Limited to Striking Topeka Plant »

July 17, 2021 | Dan DiMaggio

UPDATE, Friday, July 23: Union members at the Topeka Frito-Lay facility are voting all day today on a new tentative agreement.
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Billionaires Can Have the Cosmos—We Only Want the Earth »

July 15, 2021 | Luis Feliz Leon

Fleeing is what the rich do best. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz fled Texas last winter, abandoning millions to freezing temperatures.
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At a Convention Like No Other, Teamster Challengers Turn a Corner »

July 14, 2021 | Alexandra Bradbury

This was a Teamsters convention like no other—and not just because it was held online, avoiding the usual Las Vegas spectacle where a few brave reformers run a gauntlet of booing red-vested delegates.

Volvo Workers Forced to Vote Again on Contract They Just Rejected »

July 12, 2021 | Jane Slaughter

UPDATE, July 15: Yesterday, workers voted narrowly (1,147 to 1,130) to accept the third tentative agreement, which had been defeated by a 60-40 margin five days earlier. Workers will report back to work next week.--Eds.

'We Want to See Our Families': Frito-Lay Workers Strike Over 84-Hour Weeks, Meager Raises »

July 10, 2021 | Dan DiMaggio

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.


Some workers have been forced to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, for weeks on end due to short staffing. They want to see that change.
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Viewpoint: Solidarity for the Tenet Nurses Strike Should Be Labor's Top Priority Right Now »

July 7, 2021 | Mark Dudzic and Rand Wilson

Speaking on the recent National Solidarity Call in support of striking nurses at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, Our Revolution leader Joseph Geevarghese characterized the situation as “Biden’s PATCO moment.”

Steward's Corner: How One Union Uses Kitchen Table Economics to Advance Medicare for All »

July 6, 2021 | Kari Thompson

Our union, the United Electrical Workers, represents a diverse range of workplaces.
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Review: White Workers Who Buy into Racism Are Shooting Themselves (and Everyone Else) in the Foot »

July 1, 2021 | Steve Downs

From liberals to democratic socialists, many people on the left agree that the key to addressing racial inequity in the U.S. is winning “universal demands,” such as Medicare for All and free tuition at public schools and universities.
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Employers Are Using the Crisis to Push Concessions They Don't Need »

June 30, 2021 | Alexandra Bradbury

Employers never let a crisis go to waste. Like clockwork, after this awful year, here come the demands for concessions.
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Striking Alabama Miners Call Out NYC Hedge Funds for Bringing in Scabs »

June 28, 2021 | Steve Wishnia

You take a six-dollar pay cut and what do you get? Five years older and no respect for the sacrifices you made to get your employer out of bankruptcy, say the striking Alabama coal miners who protested outside the Manhattan offices of three hedge funds on June 22.
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Defying Police Violence, Strikers across Colombia Are Demanding Transformational Change »

June 24, 2021 | Tom Power and Cruz Bonlarron Martínez

What started as a Colombian protest against a regressive tax bill has become a national strike against police brutality and poverty.

'We Took Care of Each Other': A Maritime Union's Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity »

June 23, 2021 | Jonathan Kissam

Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, a small but militant union of maritime workers on the West Coast with openly gay members and leaders coined a slogan linking discrimination against gay men, racial discrimination, and red-baiting.
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Engines Out and Pickets Up to Stop Health Plan Downgrade by Cummins »

June 21, 2021 | Matt Carson, Keith Brower Brown, and Ella Teevan

Thirty-three heavy-duty engine mechanics have been on an open-ended strike since June 8 at the Cummins service shop in San Leandro, California.

Dispersed but Undaunted, Chicago Amazon Workers Help Win Megacycle Pay Nationwide »

June 15, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

Chicago Amazon warehouse workers were put in a tough spot, and made the best of it.
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Striking ATI Steelworkers Hold the Line for Premium-Free Health Insurance »

June 14, 2021 | Peter Knowlton

Across the country, steelworkers at nine plants of Allegheny Technologies, Inc. have been on strike for the last 11 weeks.

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