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The Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee was previously the only VW facility in the world without union representation. But all that changed on April 20, when workers voted in favour of unionisation in a three-day ballot, reports Malik Miah.

The new issue of Labor Notes magazine includes an article by labor scholar Kim Moody about how global corporations are abandoning the “just in time” (JIT) model of production which they adopted …

The event ws a major effort to promote the union apparatus which functions as a central pillar of class rule.

CHICAGO – Delegates at the Labor Notes Conference here last weekend took time out to cheer the historic breaking of the anti-union stranglehold on the deep South by the organizing victory of the United Auto Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Labor Notes conference explodes, with growing ranks of unionists, new organizers taking on goliaths like Amazon and Starbucks, and veterans invigorated by reform victories.

Amid an encampment of pro-Palestine student protesters, about 50 University of Michigan community members gathered on the Diag Monday evening for a teach-in about Palestine and to celebrate the first night of Passover with a seder, a ceremonial dinner in commemoration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

Support for Palestine was strong among the thousands of union activists who attended the Labor Notes conference in the Chicago area April 18-21. Although not an official conference event, a rally organized by the Labor for Palestine National Network on April 19 drew hundreds of people.  The crowd blocked traffic…

The Teamsters bureaucracy consumes over a hundred million dollars a year to pay its bureaucrats lavish salaries and invest in financial assets.

The fact that Biden issued such a statement testifies to the extraordinary seriousness with which the government takes the credibility of the pro-war, pro-corporate union bureaucracy.

We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless or whether your choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.