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The following is a Dec. 13 press release from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Graduate Student Union. CAMBRIDGE, MA - Today, graduate empl

Representatives of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition submitted 1584 union cards to Indiana University, formally requesting an election.

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward give a detailed account and analysis of the militant movement of unemployed American workers during the Great Depression, how it developed and how it was recuperated by the government through its own leaders.

Union-busting industry tracker A volunteer group of union members from across the U.S. has developed an online map of the union-busting industry. The map lists both companies and the union-busting firms they hire for thousands of dollars per day to turn workers against unions. Take a look at laborlab.us/unionbustingtracker, where…

Account of 1938 Maytag strike in Newton, Iowa by workers affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The strike involved anti-communist rhetoric from state politicians and the company, political maneuvering by the Democratic Party, and eventually, military intervention, which broke the strike.

Graduate student workers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly announced their efforts to organize a union on Monday, Sept 27. The MIT

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San Francisco teachers’ union endorses Israel boycott movement

Jewish community pans 'inflammatory' resolution from United Educators of San Francisco that says US aid to Israel is being used to 'fund apartheid and war crimes'

A Jewish union member suggested an alternative resolution that condemned Hamas and dropped the BDS call.