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Picketing stores that sell an employer’s products can publicize a strike and hurt earnings. It is also a good way to generate community support.

The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.

An article looking at anarchists' involvement in rank-and-file committees and flying squads in Canada.

Workers need to build independent rank-and-file committees, independent of IATSE, that actually represent their interests.

If Deere workers did not win their full demands, it is not because they were defeated by the company, but because they were betrayed by the UAW.

The election of Sean O’Brien, a notorious right-wing thug with personal connections to the Biden administration, is not a victory for “democracy” in the Teamsters but corresponds with the needs of the discredited union bureaucracy.

Nurses, technicians, clerical workers and custodians at the city's Mercy Hospital have been on strike for three weeks.

The Democrats and the UAW are working to soften workers up and get them to lower their guard while Deere dramatically escalates its strikebreaking efforts.

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

The farm equipment manufacturer plans to force 10,000 striking workers and their families off their health insurance.