May Day 2022 marked a year when worker organizing crested in historic resurgence in the U.S. Mass outrage against racism, embodied in earlier enormous Black Lives Matter protests, flowed into red-hot anger at the bosses’ exploitation of workers’ heroic frontline efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result? Workers walked off . . .
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By Joanna Straugh The Supreme Court of the United States has the votes to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case legalizing abortion in the United States. This was revealed in a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that came to press without the Court’s permission. The historically unprecedented . . .
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Los anunciantes corporativos cambian sus eslóganes regularmente. ¿Cuántos de nosotros recordamos “Busca los arcos dorados”? Podemos datarnos por lo que recordamos. Trabajadores de Starbucks realizan un paro por la seguridad, Ithaca, Nueva York, 16 de abril. Pero es una historia diferente con los eslóganes de la clase trabajadora. “Un perjuicio . . .
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By Mairead Skehan Gillis City Feed Unite experienced energizing labor and community solidarity at their first union rally in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, April 24. The rally took place down the street from City Feed and Supply, a local high-end grocery store and cafe with two locations and approximately 40 employees. . . .
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Oakland, California Despite threats of retaliation from officials in the Oakland Unified School District and the Port of Oakland, teachers and longshore workers went out on strike on April 29. They shut down public schools and the port for the entire day to protest school closures and the pending sale . . .
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