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SMART Protests Illegal Deportation of Union Member
This week, The Atlantic broke the story that the Trump Administration had illegally deported an immigrant from El
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The following is a crosspost from Confined Spaces, a newsletter published by the former deputy assistant Secretary for OSHA, Jordan Barab.
Trump’s war on workers is reaching full bloom. And not just a war on workers’ rights to organize or to engage in collective bargaining; Trump has now going
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Over the weekend, protestors marched outside all 277 Tesla showrooms. The effort was the first time for many protestors to show up on the picket line.
The protests received widespread media coverage from local press while the national media largely ignored the protests. Payday has organized some of this local
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This week, it was announced that Robert McChesney, a leading critic of corporate media culture, died at the age of 72.
In high school during the early 2000s, my grandparents, Jewish World War Two volunteers, and communists got me a subscription to the Nation. I began to read what Robert
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PITTSBURGH, PA. - For decades, Western PA political operative Mike Mikus, who runs the Chartiers Group, has worked for unions including the Steelworkers, the Firefighters, and the local Allegheny-Fayette AFL-CIO.
As a result of heavy labor backing, he successfully led election efforts for conservative Democrats in Western PA, including former
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