California
The too-large-for-life longshore leader Harry Bridges
March 21, 2023Who else in labor, apart from outright gangsters and the more numerous corrupt bigshots, had successfully evaded prosecution by U.S. administrations and the FBI for generations?
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30,000 L.A. school support staffers to strike; teachers refuse to cross picket line
March 17, 2023This majority-woman workforce—cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, and special ed assistants—make an average of only $25,000 a year.
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California Nurses recharge their fight for Medicare For All
February 23, 2023In their state, the program is called CalCare, the fight for which the nurses have never given up.
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Teamsters launch campaign in California to ban driverless trucks
February 16, 2023In pursuit of profits and discounting injury and death, corporations have pushed driverless cars and trains, and now its driverless big rigs. Are airplanes next?
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Vicious storms keep pummeling California
January 10, 2023The heavy rain has set off widespread flooding that, in addition to the obvious dangers, can also carry industrial and toxic waste.
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