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“They’re Trying to Starve Us”: BP Opposes Unemployment Benefits for Locked-Out Workers

Six and a half months into a lockout, the oil giant is appealing workers’ unemployment, a move that could force union members ...
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A Sweeping Reelection Victory for Shawn Fain and His Slate at UAW

Members of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly backed another term for Shawn Fain and his United UAW slate of union ...
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"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer

Protestors gather in memory of Refaat Alareer and call for an end to Israeli occupation Photo by Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Refaat’s poem “If I Must Die” has been shared ...
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Go Buy a Record

What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not ...
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Toledo Residents’ Lives Upended by Brent Industries Explosion

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of Toledo, Ohio residents to discuss the morning of the industrial disaster ...
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In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) was in trouble before the Covid-19 outbreak, but now it’s fighting for its life — officials predict a $13 billion revenue loss amid declining mail volume this ...
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In a Victory for Progressives, Chicago Is Now the Largest U.S. City to Call for a Cease-Fire

On Wednesday, Chicago became the largest city in the nation to endorse a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza. In a case brought by South Africa accusing the Israeli ...
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Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power

Amazon workers picketed their employer over the weekend through blisteringly frigid weather and, in New York, a flooded sidewalk as part of an escalating series of strikes by a minority of workers ...
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“It Kind of Feels Like Prison”: Injured, Burned Out and Under Surveillance at Amazon

More than four in 10 Amazon workers report being injured on the job, and the number increases to more than half for those who have been working for the company for more than five years, according to a ...
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State

While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956 – 57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a renowned ...
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Employers Steal Up to $50 Billion From Workers Every Year. It’s Time to Reclaim It.

In recent years, mainstream media has been dominated by stories of increased crime, but rarely do outlets cover one of the most common and insidious offenses in our society: wage theft. Employers ...
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The Trump Administration Just Opened a New Immigrant Prison in Rural Michigan

Oscar Castañeda (L) meets local Democratic officials at a protest against the opening of the Geo Group's North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Mich., on Oct 1., 2019. (Photo by Theresa Rosado) ...