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This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Aug. 28, 2023. It is shared here with permission. Five hundred Auto Workers (UAW) from Local 862 held rallies in Louisville, Kentucky, August 24 and 25, part of a wave of practice pickets and rallies around the country. Class struggle was on everyone’s lips. A variety of issues brought them to the picket, but the auto workers there were unanimous about turbocharged wealth inequality leaving workers behind. At the Thursday picket, Local 862 member

The past few months have seen a flurry of "rank-and-file" conferences in the British labour movement. "How to Fight, How to Win", initiated by activists around Counterfire, took place in June, and launched the Rank-and-File Combine. The Troublemakers' Conference was held in Manchester in July, with sponsorship from several union branches and left groups, including Workers' Liberty. A post-conference committee has met twice. Activists from rs21 are heavily involved; the Notes from Below group was also prominent at the conference itself.

Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, have been on strike since August 4. Their main demand is for enough staff to safely care for their patients. Photo: USW Local 4-200. By Kelsey Khan / Labor Notes I am one of 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are members of United Steel Workers Local 4-200. The hospital administration has used intimidation, scare tactics, and lies to convince the public

Members of the Teamsters just voted to ratify a new contract at UPS. The union made big gains – but in opting not to strike over demands beyond wages, the Teamsters may have passed up a transformative opportunity for the labor movement.

Honda Wang, a Democratic Party operative who became a leading DSA figure after advising capitalist politicians at the pro-Clinton Schoen Consulting firm, put out the call on Twitter, “The left media ecosystem needs to cover DSA convention because the only group pushing coverage is WSWS and people are believing their made-up bulls--- [sic] because they’re the only ones reporting on it.”