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This is a joint publication with The Intercept. Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, production workers at a John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, started shutting down the plant, quenching the furnaces in the foundry. The plant was already mostly empty, with Deere telling overnight workers to stay home. Three days earlier, union members at United Auto Workers meetings in

Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.

In a welcome development, strikes are breaking out all over the country.

IATSE averted a strike in Hollywood over Netflix. Nurses with Kaiser Permaente are on edge. Unions and the labor movement are seeing the power of strikes.

The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide.

A round-up on the John Deere strike: The contract dispute, and the correlation of forces between labor and management.

The workers are protesting low wages, long hours and inadequate benefits as the company reports record profits.

A short introduction to and history of bossnapping - workers detaining their bosses in order to win demands - written by Evan Johnston.

The strange story of Southwest's operational collapse this weekend

All over the country, workers are winning concessions. What business calls a “labor shortage” is really labor power in action.