Labor
Puerto Rico teachers walk out to protest privatization
March 22, 2018More than 16,000 public school teachers in Puerto Rico walked out of the classrooms and marched to the Capitol in San Juan.
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Porcelen SpecRail strikers hold firm
March 20, 2018"We all went out together, we're all going back together."
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Striking Ferguson workers score a big win and a new contract
March 20, 2018After 104 days on the picket line, the workers at Christian Care Nursing Home have won a major victory.
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This week in history: IWW members tried in 1918 for “obstructing the war”
March 19, 2018The resistance to U.S. militarism and capitalism by the Wobblies should be a lesson for those resisting today.
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Trump Ed Secretary DeVos trashes her own workers’ union, imposes “contract”
March 16, 2018Not content with trashing teachers’ unions in Michigan, DeVos is now “trying to kill the union” for her own agency’s 3,900 member-workers.
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