The Biden administration could issue an emergency order amid soaring temperatures this summer. It has yet to do so.
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Reaching the End of the PATCO Era?
Forty years after Ronald Reagan made union busting a national norm, labor has a shot at rebuilding worker power.
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Canary in the Mine: Striking Miners in Alabama
The five-month strike is about worker power in America. It’s also about fighting for a just transition for carbon-intensive industries.
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The Fight for $15 Confronts the ‘Labor Shortage’ Narrative
Strikers are walking off the job today, seeking dignity at work at a time when business owners want a reserve army to accept low pay and bad conditions.
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Unsanitized: Grad Student Strike at Michigan the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus
Plus, Louis DeJoy in campaign finance trouble. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 8, 2020.
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Unsanitized: May Day Brings Rent Strikes, Worker Walkouts
Also, the Fed throws the oil industry a lifeline. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 1, 2020.
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Across Class Lines: Amazon Tech Workers Join Warehouse Workers in Protests
Home-office climate activists and warehouse employees across the nation find common cause mobilizing against Amazon’s policies.
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The Power to Slow Down Reopening
Workers can organize—and have organized—to ensure they can stay off the job until their worksites are safe.
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What Is Not to Be Done
If unions seek to re-create the labor movement of the past, organized labor will die. As capitalism has changed, so must workers’ movements.