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Nervous statements in the corporate press warn that Wednesday’s deal reached with the rail unions could “fall apart” under the weight of amid rank-and-file anger.

The AFL-CIO is teaming up with the Chris Gardner Foundation to launch a new program in Detroit this week.

Breaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United States, by Kim Moody. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022. 242 pages. $19.95 paperback

Chipotle workers in Lansing, Michigan, formed the fast food chain’s first recognized union in the U.S., voting 11-3 on August 25 to join Teamsters Local 243. It’s the latest in a string of new organizing breakthroughs at prominent national brands, from Starbucks to Apple to Trader Joe’s to REI. Of all the employers that have seen union drives over the past year, Chipotle—with

Workers may walk off the job – or be locked out by their employers – if they can’t reach a deal by the Friday deadline.

Tim Schermerhorn—subway train operator, rank-and-file activist, union militant and officer, socialist, troublemaker, Labor Notes board member, son, husband, father, grandfather, and my dear friend and comrade—died this week. Tim was hired by the New York City Transit Authority in 1982. As a founder of the Hell on Wheels newsletter in 1984, and later the New Directions caucus,

Listen to this article The late U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sean Hamilton fly-fishing. Photo used under a Creative

International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien announced a new division to support and unionize Amazon warehouse and logistics workers.

Cuts to public funding have passed universities’ financial burden on to students through rising tuition and fees. Should President Biden cancel campus debt too?

MEL BUER, mel.buer.reports@gmail.com,  Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Buer is a contributor to The Real News Network. Earlier this summer, she wrote the piece “ Corporate billionaires are wrecking the supply chain. Just look at the railroads .”