Labor Unions Turn to New Strategies In Effort To Shape Midterm Elections

If labor adapts to the changing economic and political realities that got Trump elected, it can play an outsized role helping reshape the body politic as economic insecurity increases for the majority.

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'Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children!': Poor People's Campaign Caps Off 40 Days of Action

Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, calling for a "moral revival" and demanding that America "Fight Poverty Not the Poor."

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How Rightwing Groups Wield Secret 'Toolkit' To Plot Against U.S. Unions

Rightwing activists are launching a nationwide drive to persuade public-sector trade union members to tear up their membership cards and stop paying dues, posing a direct threat to the progressive movement in America.

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Hedge Funds Have Cost Workers Billions. This is How They’re Fighting Back.

A growing movement to take pension money out of hedge funds is part of a larger effort to wrest control of the economy away from the financiers who’ve created a system that works only for the super-rich.

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Mexico’s Striking Teachers Stand Firm Against State Repression

As the Mexican school year is starting, teachers in four states have refused to return to classes until a negotiated agreement changes the government’s program – and perpetrators of a massacre are held responsible.

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Prison Labor Revolts Shake the Foundations of the Corporate State, Part I

Prison protests slated for the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising include a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage.

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Fight for $15 Takes On Campus Wages, Elevates Role of Universities In Labor Activism

Students at about 20 U.S. colleges, including Columbia, Northeastern and San Francisco State, are mounting campaigns demanding better pay for all campus workers.

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Organizing Higher Ed: When Grad Students, College Athletes and Labor Unite

In April, scholarship football players at Northwestern University voted to form a union, and more than 1,000 Yale University grad students delivered a petition demanding a clear path to unionization.

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For Our Vote To Make a Difference, It's Time to Try New Tactics

The victory of Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant shows how grassroots efforts are creating an opening for independent political action by working people — even in the tightly controlled world of electoral politics and the two-party system.

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How Oregon's "Pay It Forward" Bill Tackles Student Debt

Oregon's new Pay It Forward bill will delay tuition being paid by any student attending any state school until after s/he graduates and gets a job.

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