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A chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Ala., in the 1940s.Credit.Buyenlarge/Getty Images The Deep South is not generally known for its labor agitation, which is why it might come as a surprise for some to learn that it is in Alabama where workers have mounted one of the largest and most aggressive efforts to unionize Amazon in recent memory. More than 2,000 workers at a fulfillment center in the city of Bessemer, just outside Birmingham, have indicated support for a union election. An estimated 85 percent of the work force is Black, and their union drive which ties labor issues to Black Lives Matter and issues of racial equality illustrates the extent to which racism and class exploitation are tied up with each other. ....
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Anita Torrez sits smiling in her sunlit Tucson living room. | Al Neal / PW People’s World has learned of the passing of Anita Torrez. A fuller story is on the way from her comrades in Arizona but for now we reprint the following article in her memory. This article won a first place award in the Best Profile Story category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association. It’s a lonely two-lane stretch of Arizona desert highway from Phoenix to Tucson. To your left and to your right greenish-brown desert brush, solitary cacti, and tan, rocky valleys and hilltops seem to dance before your eyes. A mirage. ....
True West Magazine Gov. James Peabody. Colorado Governor James Peabody was a target literally during the labor wars that wracked that state in the early 1900s. Leaders of the Western Federation of Miners saw him as an enemy who was determined to crush the labor movement (basically true). So they hired Harry Orchard to get Peabody out of the way. Orchard and at least one compatriot scouted the governor’s mansion, waiting for Peabody to emerge so that they could shotgun him. An opportunity never presented itself. So Orchard set bombs in various places, targeting the governor. Those failed. Peabody later retired, safely. ....