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Google workers organize innovative new type of union with CWA

January 5, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Using innovations to attract their colleagues—everyone from software engineers to outside “contractors”—Google workers are organizing the high-tech behemoth.

Connecticut UNITE HERE activists canvass Georgia to take back Senate

January 4, 2021 By Ron Hurt

900 canvassers affiliated with the UNITE HERE union have been getting out the vote in Georgia for weeks. New Haven Alder Ron Hurt is one of them, and reflects on his experiences here.

Boris Johnson and the EU strike deal on a bosses’ Brexit

January 4, 2021 By John Foster

As the false polarizations that have divided working people over the past decade subside, the class politics of both the EU and Johnson are there for all to see.

Candidates wrap up campaigns today in Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs

January 4, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Huge get-out-the-vote effort tomorrow in a crucial election that will determine who controls the U.S. Senate and the chances for the enactment of Joe Biden’s pro-worker agenda.

Unions: The $900 billion stimulus only a step to rescuing workers

January 4, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor leaders say workers have been physically and financially smashed by the pandemic and that the stimulus helps but much more needs to be done.