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May Day 2021 – International Workers’ Day! By Martha Grevatt posted on May 4, 2021 May Day began in the U.S. in 1884 after labor federations called for worker strikes and protests for the eight-hour day. 400,000 workers answered the call countrywide on May 1, 1886. That year eight worker organizers, some immigrants, were arrested and framed for the May 4 bombing of a Haymarket Square rally in Chicago. Five were sentenced to death; four were executed and a fifth died in his cell. An 1889 i...

Left Voice on the RWDSU debacle at Amazon: A lawyers’ brief for union executives After a lengthy campaign, backed by President Biden and substantial sections of the political establishment and corporate media, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) received only 738 votes in favor, or less than 13 percent of the 5,800 workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse. The humiliating rejection of the RWDSU by Amazon workers has produced a wave of rationalizations and apolog...