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Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And

Workers across many industries defied conventional organizing wisdom in order to gain ground.

TUCSON, Ariz. (PAI)—Angry members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen took out their ire over the national freight rail contract agreed to by union leaders, including their longtime President Dennis Pierce, by throwing the latter out of his job.

Rail workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have ousted their longtime president.

Rail workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have ousted their longtime president.

Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And

Over the last 27 years Amazon has grown from a little-known online bookseller to a global sprawling logistics and delivery empire, overtaking brick-and-mortar retailers with its e-commerce offerings and threatening to make serious inroads on last-mile carriers like FedEx, UPS, and the Postal Service. Recently Amazon even established a virtual health services company: Amazon

Four out of five House ‘socialists’ scabbed. <strong>Parker McQueeney</strong> of the Marxist Unity Group brings to light the deep divisions within the DSA revealed by the recent railworkers disputes

The Democratic Socialists of America, a pseudo-left faction of the Democratic Party, has been thrown into crisis after three of its four members in the House of Representatives voted in favor of the dictatorial law banning a national rail strike.

This injunction could not have passed in the form that it was, with the speed which it was, without the support of the pseudo-left.