Amazonians United: A new trap for workers
Last month, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) lost its unionization vote at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama by a more than two-to-one margin. The RWDSU, which relied on the backing of the Biden administration, Democratic members of Congress and even right-wing Republican Senator Marco Rubio, was incapable of generating any significant support from workers.
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World Socialist Web Site has explained in a numberofarticles analyzing the RWDSU union drive, from the outset the effort was a top-down operation, an initiative of the Democratic Party and AFL-CIO, rather than an expression of workers’ opposition from below. The Democrats have made a calculated decision that the unions, having proven themselves reliable caretakers of corporate interests, must be provided further institutional support, so they may better serve as a brake on the class struggle and keep it from developing in a more radical, social
On Thursday, two Chicago aldermen were separately indicted including Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson for allegedly taking a secret ‘under the table’ loan and former Ald. Ricardo Munoz who is accused of using money from a political fund for personal expenses. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.
In October 2016, prosecutors say Munoz transferred $16,000 to a joint account he held with a family member to make a university tuition payment for an unnamed person. Authorities allege he then transferred that same amount back into the CPRC s account and told another individual the initial transfer did not need to be reported to election officials on campaign finance disclosure forms because the money had been deposited back in.
Prosecutors say in October 2018, Munoz made electronic transfers of $5,000 and $2,100 from the CPRC to his own bank account and used that money for his own personal use and benefit, the indictment says.
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Focal Point Community Campus
When Lucky Camargo drives past the vast stretch of vacant land on 31st Street and Kedzie Avenue, she’s reminded of what used to be in Little Village.
It’s the site of the old Washburne Trade School, which she said created secure, well-paying jobs for people in the community. But now, the neighborhood is at the mercy of an unstable gig economy.
“This neighborhood is under siege and income inequality is rampant, which makes this type of exploitation possible,” Camargo said. “They [St. Anthony Hospital] benefit from public dollars and then collect all the profits once it’s done.”