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More than 80 drivers and dispatchers for a Palmdale contractor that handles deliveries for Amazon.com have joined the Teamsters union.

Mark Brenner, former Labor Notes director and a member of the Portland Troublemakers School planning committee, and Lorene Scheer, former union organizer with Teamsters and SEIU and a trainer at this year's Troublemakers School, outline the exciting workshops and panels, including nuts & bolts organizing to cross-union labor strategies, coming up Saturday, May 6th, with

Labor leader Sean OBrien, president of Teamsters labor union, speaks during the Labor Notes conference, in Chicago. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via…

As the labor movement struggles, a “Troublemakers School” draws more than 400 activists. Here are some of their stories.

The vote in December by AOC and two other DSA members in the House of Representatives to impose a contract which railroad workers already voted to reject was a major self-exposure that sparked outrage and damaged the credibility of the DSA.

UPS begins talks this week with the Teamsters Union on the largest collective bargaining agreement in the US, with the union calling the parcel-delivery giant for improvements in part-timers and drivers’ compensation. 

The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.

Another poultry plant in Glen Allen, Virginia, has also been slated for closure as part of the company’s restructuring operations, in response to a record drop in profits over the past six months.

Labor leader Chris Smalls, president of Amazon Labor Union, speaks during the Labor Notes conference, in Chicago, Illinois. Smalls organized an Amazon…

And the only ones their legislation might spare are the unions representing cops and firefighters.