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After months of silence the pseudo-left <em>Jacobin</em> magazine has published an article on the UAW election that fails to mention that a genuine socialist, Mack Trucks autoworker Will Lehman, is on the ballot.

A union spokesman said that rail companies — with more than $10 billion in stock buybacks and dividends in the first six months of 2022 — can easily afford to provide workers with paid leave when they are sick. By Julia Conley Common Dreams A statement from the United States' major freight

These remarks were delivered this week on the Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s only union talk radio show. Before we go any deeper into the show, I wanted to take a couple minutes to reflect on last weekend’s successful Alabama Troublemakers School conducted by Labor Notes at the University of Montevallo. Over 120 Southern working class activists gathered on Saturday, October

With U.S. union ranks swelling as everyone from coffee shop baristas to warehouse workers seeks to organize, Illinois voters will decide next month whether to amend their state constitution to guarantee the right to bargain collectively.

On websites including Zola and the Knot, the number of registries requesting donations in support of reproductive rights has risen as the debate over abortion has moved to the political forefront.

For the first time in recent history, workers in the UAW will be able to cast a vote for a socialist proponent of rank-and-file power: Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman.

Amazon warehouses caught fire in New York and Alabama this past week, endangering hundreds of workers. In the unionized Staten Island facility, workers marched on managers and staged a sit-down in protest over Amazon’s disregard for their safety—and the company lashed back with mass suspensions. The HSV1 fulfillment center in Madison, a suburb of Huntsville in northern

“Seeing the outpouring of support from people all over the Boston area has renewed a lot of our faith in the community.”

There should be stronger protections for this.

Florida company PostcardMania faces an onslaught of criticism for asking employees to work through Hurricane Ian.