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Adding insult to injury, they didn’t even get to eat the cake, which was for management

<strong>Shuvu Bhattarai</strong> upholds Enough is Enough as a model which socialists in the US ought to emulate. He sees it rapidly developing “into a mass working people’s party” built around basic bread and butter economic demands

A number of veteran organizers and labor journalists are publishing books this year that will be of interest to Labor Notes readers. Many of them participated in a "Meet the Author" session at the recent Labor Notes Conference. Here are a few books to check out or pre-order: “We are getting our asses kicked... To revive the labor movement, we need to revive class struggle

GEO Group is retaliating against the jailed immigrants, even as it denies that an ongoing strike is underway.

A startup called Unit of Work is helping workers form independent unions, with backing from an unlikely source. The mission is to reverse the long-term decline of organized labor in the U.S.

The labor action against $1 a day pay and work conditions is taking place at two facilities in California operated by the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., Alejandra Quintero reports.  By Alejandra Quintero Labor Notes At two federal detention centers

At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages. “We are being exploited for our labor and are being paid $1 per day to clean the dormitories,” said strikers at a central California detention center in a June statement received by public radio station KQED. Detained workers, known as

Republished from the US rank-and-file trade union network and publication Labor Notes. This year Labor Notes held its biggest ever conference, with over 4,000 people in attendance. The video from the opening rally is well worth a watch.

The Stranger's labor roundup.

Republished from the US rank-and-file trade union network and publication Labor Notes. This year Labor Notes held its biggest ever conference, with over 4,000 people in attendance. The video from the opening rally is well worth a watch.