Portland, Oregon “Oh workers, can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can? We’ve got to stand up for our rights, not fall for Schultz’s scam!” Singing a new verse to the old union standard “Which Side Are You On,” voices harmonized in the cold, damp Portland air outside . . .
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“Senseless.” How many times have we heard that after a mass shooting? It’s like a broken record. The word has been repeated many times after the Nov. 20 massacre of workers and customers at an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado. President Joe Biden called the shootings at Club Q . . .
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When Nicaragua identified its first COVID-19 case on March 18, 2020, President Daniel Ortega understood that shutting down the economy would be catastrophic for the country’s informal farmworkers. In Nicaragua, three-quarters of all jobs are in farming. If workers don’t work, they don’t get paid. Public health care worker from . . .
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Workers in Britain have been in motion conducting walkouts and strikes, with hundreds of thousands of workers expected to carry out more labor actions before the new year. Rail workers have led the charge, encouraging workers in a range of occupations to follow suit. British Postal workers strike, Nov. 24. . . .
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Cleveland Como explicaron los miembros en huelga de Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) mientras estaban en la línea de piquete, el Día de la Taza Roja es “como el Viernes Negro de Starbucks”. En todo el mundo, la promoción atrae a un número de clientes superior a la media para el . . .
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