Labor
Striking health workers demand parity for mental and physical healthcare
December 20, 2018“Don’t get me wrong—I would love to have more money, but what motivates me to show up on the picket line is that so many of our patients don’t get what they need, so many of...
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Trump’s ‘new NAFTA’ won’t stop job outsourcing
December 18, 2018The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will not end the outsourcing incentives that have allowed companies to hollow out communities across the country.
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California firefighters dodge death, face harrowing conditions on the job
December 17, 2018A crew setting a back burn to stop the blaze was suddenly overrun by flames when erratic winds suddenly shifted.
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The global working class fought back in 2018
December 17, 2018Some of these fights have made the mainstream news in western countries, but many have not.
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Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians strike for better patient care
December 14, 2018Oakland’s picketers were among some 4,000 psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and addiction medicine specialists throughout California.
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