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Fourteen workers, mostly Black and mostly women, pose smiling in a school classroom. Most are wearing yellow "Baltimore Teachers Union" T-shirts.

To Get on Offense, Offer Workers Many Ways In

Dec 8 / Diamonté Brown
A crowd raise huge red cups that say “Baristas on Strike”

Red Cups Raised in Rebellion, Starbucks Strike Spreads

Dec 5 / Jenny Brown

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

Dec 4 / Alex Han
A teacher holds a sign between a school bus and the front of a school, with students visible in the background

ICE Raids Turn Schools into Battlegrounds to Defend Students

Dec 2 / Barbara Madeloni
A woman holds a sign at a rally that reads Stop the Kidnappings! Protect Our Neighbors!

Today's Labor Movement Needs a Bigger Vision

Dec 2 / David Bacon

We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico

Nov 18 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann

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Three black-and-white photos show a Black man, dressed in the white coat and black slacks of a Pullman porter, putting up a bed on an upper berth, resting on a bench seat looking out the train window, and standing on the train stairs. It is not clear whether the three photos show the same man or different men.

100 Years Ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics

Dec 18 / Paul Prescod
Three women work around a table with blue cloth grocery bags, outdoors. A man in a red T-shirt walks behind them. A truck is also visible.

Union Members Distribute Food for Federal Workers

Dec 17 / Kerry Taylor
Several Black workers, women and men, sit around a conference table. In the middle of the frame, a man in an orange T-shirt is talking, looking around at the group; others are listening thoughtfully. Everyone's expression is serious.

From Temp Trap to Union Jobs: Building Pathways for Workers with Criminal Records

Dec 17 / Maya Ragsdale

'We Are Fed Up': Winnipeg Bacon Workers Unite for Better Contract

Dec 16 / The North Star Manitoba Committee
Eight people hold printed signs, many in the yellow/purple SEIU style: "AB 715 = genocide censorship." "Fight back my ass!" "Opposed AB 715: CFA, CFT, ACLU, CTA, CNA... [but not] SEIU." "SEIU CA: Selective + politically safe. Fight back!" "You can't be neutral on a moving train." "When we fight we win! When we're neutral we lose!" Big white signs with black & red letters: "AB 715 censors education on Palestine." "What's next? Censoring education on: Slavery, Queer/Ethnic Studies, Japanese Internment?"

Viewpoint: SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship

Dec 15 / Larry Bradshaw, Anne Wolf, and Noga Wizansky

Review: Who’s Got the Power: Hope for Troubled Times

Dec 3 / Eric Dirnbach

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